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...Half a century had passed since John Edgar Hoover first reported for work at the Justice Department as a $1,200-a-year clerk. Now 72, and the only chief the FBI has ever had, Hoover marked the anniversary in characteristic fashion-working at his desk from 9 a.m. till past 6 p.m., and breaking only for a quiet lunch at the White House with L.B.J. and Attorney General Ramsey Clark...
McNulty's is a dingy neighborhood bar in an old part of the city. It attracts mostly old men from the neighborhood who come in around non stay till five, come back at seven and stay till closing. The old TV bought years ago to encourage business after a new highway isolated the place from traffic, is never turned on. Once in a while a stranger will come, attracted by the pasteboard sign hanging in the window: "McNulty's--Next to the railroad potato yards, come in and meet the real spuds." The real spuds always have something...
Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock...
...fourth meet record was set by Fergus Murray of Oxford, who loped the the two mile in 8:44. Harvard's Doug Hardin placed third, and his 8:48 time till set a Harvard record...
...figures, "if you want to stay in the mainstream." "I'll never retire," he vows, "until they just don't want me any more." Clearly, he will die with those unfillable size 11 boots on. "I want to continue to be a worthwhile citizen," rasps the Duke, "till the man upstairs knocks on the door...