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...part, Hoover contended that the FBI is an investigative agency, which often cannot act without Justice Department instructions. He later expanded on that theme in an interview with former Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead, author of The FBI Story. "I don't enjoy a controversy, and I don't go looking for one," said Hoover. "But I cannot let attacks on the FBI go unchallenged when they are unjustified." He complained that civil rights groups "want us to be bodyguards and to give personal protection, but that is impossible. Our agents cannot be used as instruments for social...
...honor and the student has the system." But disloyalty is not common, and most engineers hand-picked for advanced training are glad to go back to their old employers-until they need another round of schooling. It is a never-ending process. As Philosopher-Mathematician Alfred North Whitehead put it: "Knowledge keeps no better than fish...
EXHIBITIONS 7 Millenniums Under One Roof "The last 6,000 years of human history are most interesting," Alfred North Whitehead once remarked to a dinner companion. If the philosopher could have attended the current exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., he would have had to increase his span by a millennium. The Archaeological Museum of Teheran and a major private Iranian collection have been spilled open to provide the U.S. with a show of 735 objects, many of them only recently discovered, from 7,000 years of Persian...
...stated that the Rev. Joseph Timothy O'Callahan [March 27] won the only Congressional Medal of Honor ever awarded to a chaplain. There has been at least one other-Chaplain John M. Whitehead of the 15th Indiana Infantry. The deed judged significant enough to merit the award occurred at the Civil War battle of Stone's River (near Murfreesboro, Tenn.) on Dec. 31, 1862. The medal was issued on April...
...might hold forth on the great men he personally knew well--Whitehead, Sibelius, Harvey Cushing, Santayana, Rolland, Koussevitzky, Sir Richard Livingstone, Gilbert Murray, Samuel Eliot Morison; or on the things absorbed into his marrow--the sweep of Homer, the wisdom of Sophocles, the vitality of Michelangelo, the depth of Beethoven, the ironies of Stendhal, the scope of Goethe, the imagination of Berlioz, the thrust of Ibsen, the grandeur of Wagner, the vigor of Whitman...