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...bureaucracy. We understand that the present system rewards the naysayers and consummate bureaucrats within the career civil service who say no to good ideas and out-of-the-box thinking. Rowley's memo will focus the attention of Congress and the Administration on FBI reforms. GERALD A. FILL Alexandria, Va...
DIED. STANLEY LLOYD GREIGG, 71, former Iowa Congressman who filed the criminal complaint that sparked the Watergate investigation; of a heart attack; in Roanoke, Va. As then deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee, Greigg was called in by Washington police on June 17, 1972, to view a lineup of the five Watergate burglars...
...Jerry Daly, 58, who runs his own public-relations firm in Herndon, Va., a first-time, week-long road trip this year to baseball stadiums in Boston, Pittsburgh, Baltimore and New York City will be a way of sharing a love for the game and spending some time with his brother Larry, 61, an Evansville, Ind., lawyer. The brothers used to take their father on a trip every year for his birthday. After their father died two years ago, the two discussed doing some kind of annual outing as a way to remain close. When Jerry gave his brother...
Eventually, researchers would like to learn what role our genes, as opposed to our environment, play in the development of anxiety. "It has been known for some time that these disorders run in families," says Kenneth Kendler, a psychiatric geneticist at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va. "So the next logical question is the nature-nurture issue." In other words, are anxious people born that way, or do they become anxious as a result of their life experiences...
...precious, Stanley is anything but. Growing up in the Clinch Mountains of Virginia in the 1930s, he learned the banjo from his mother while his brother Carter took guitar lessons from the mailman. The Stanley Brothers were naturals, and soon they were performing live out of a Bristol, Va., radio station and recording for Columbia. At one point, they were the biggest act in Appalachia not named Bill Monroe...