Word: shockely
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...Waves of Shock. TIME has also learned that FBI Director Clarence Kelley has ordered an investigation of his agency's business relations with one of the frequent poker players at the club: Joseph Tait, president of Washington's U.S. Recording Co., which buys bugging and wiretapping equipment and sells it to the FBI. In the spy business (he also sells to the CIA), Tait is known as a "cutout," whose role is to prevent victims of electronic snooping from knowing what type of equipment the agencies are using against them. Kelley is pursuing reports that Tait may have...
Such a rare internal investigation is sending waves of shock and rumor through the FBI. Morale was further jolted by the testimony last week of a former FBI informer. Appearing before the Senate committee wearing a cloth mask to preserve a new identity adopted for self-protection, an informer once known as Gary Rowe Jr. testified that he had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan for the FBI in the early 1960s. He said he was told to do everything possible to sow dissension within the Klan. Rowe said of Klan families: "I was told to sleep with as many wives...
...November and then, last week, to one. Offered the job again, John Wilson did not demur. He thus became a striking exception to the recent trend in university presidencies, which have been going to people in their late 30s to early 50s. Nonetheless, his appearance-a thick shock of silvery hair, bushy eyebrows and square-set jaw-belies...
...word "risk" often brings to mind medical or biological dangers-- chancy new surgical techniques or the testing of possibly toxic new drugs. But although psychological research sometimes entails physical risk--Leary was not alone in testing drugs, and electric shock, loud sudden noise and alcohol have all been used recently in William James-- more often the dangers are to the mind. Experimental psychology can invade subjects' privacy, stressfully manipulate their minds, or coerce them into unpleasant situations by intentionally deceiving them...
Herron's sudden change of venue came as a shock to Jones, who originally approached Herron with the idea of a biography last December...