Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good sign when institutions, as well as people, take action to alter a past mistake," David Lubell said...
This week, despite the growing controversy about the admiral, he will get much of the broader powers that he wanted, and from his old Annapolis mate Jimmy Carter. The President on Tuesday will sign an order reorganizing the entire U.S. intelligence community, which embraces the CIA and the intelligence arms of the FBI, the State and Defense departments and the individual military services. The directive will give Turner authority over all intelligence budgets (estimated total: $7 billion). But, as decreed by the President last summer, the order stops short of giving Turner the job he most coveted: U.S. intelligence czar...
...directive also reaffirms the list of dos and don'ts for American agents that was signed two years ago by President Ford. It sets no limits on a CIA practice that attracted heavy criticism during recent congressional hearings: the use of newsmen, students or clergymen as agents. Though the general policy is not to use them, the White House asserts that it did not want specifically to single out any groups for exclusion. But agents cannot interview people in the U.S. without identifying themselves as spooks. Nor can the CIA, using a seemingly innocuous business firm as cover overseas...
...none earlier than Frits Lugt, the century's greatest scholar and collector of Dutch drawings. In 1892, when Lugt was eight and the other little boys in his native Amsterdam were swapping beetles and cigarette cards, he transformed a room into the "Museum Lugtius" with a sign on the door reading "Open when the Director is at home." By twelve, he started a fully annotated catalogue of Netherlandish drawings and, even more surprisingly, kept at it for three years. At 15, he wrote a life of Rembrandt. The chief works of Lugt's maturity, especially the great catalogues...
...hatted construction workers, wrapped to the ears in wool and goose down, are sawing, hammering and pouring concrete. Land speculators in search of property have driven prices as high as $5,000 for a one acre building lot. Money is just starting to flow in, but it gives every sign of becoming an avalanche...