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Your cartoon with "Hoover's Home Improvements" [Jan. 23] made me realize why J. Edgar Hoover had FBI men do his repair work. Since bugs or bombs could have easily been planted by repairmen, wasn't it safer and more economical for loyal employees to do the work? An alternative would have been to hire outside help and assign a loyal agent to watch each repairman...
Along with all the diversions, Camp David also provides?at the bottom of an elevator shaft sunk 100 ft. into the mountain?a fortress where the President could repair in time of war. Even in peaceful times, security is tight. Rifle-bearing Marines keep watch behind a double row of barbed-wire-topped fences...
...department will select ten to 15 firms, probably auto-repair services, and subsidize their purchase of electric cars. Over the next three years, these companies will buy 2,500 electrics and possibly some hybrids (which switch over to gasoline engines for high-speed, long-distance driving). The cars should cost from $3,000 to $7,000, of which the Government will pay perhaps $1,000. The selected firms?there are already 49 applicants ?will sell or lease the cars to the public at discount prices. Drivers will register their impressions with the dealers, who will service the cars...
...wrestlers have a dual meet with Princeton and Penn scheduled this afternoon at Yale. How does that sound for repair of a badly damaged schedule...
...officials declined to estimate repair costs in other areas...