Hoover and the FBI race hiring in the 1960s
The piece notes J Edgar Hoover’s evolving stance on race in FBI hiring from 1962 to 1964 and cites figures showing black employees within the bureau. It questions secrecy about hires, highlights Kennedy’s push for more black agents, and praises desegregation progress while urging public disclosure.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Ebony
FBI
Hoover
Newsweek
Robert Kennedy
Kennedy
Washington Post
Sour note in Sweetwater mirrors Soviet harassment stance
In Sweetwater Florida a local mayor and a Soviet official share a harsh view on dealing with disliked people. A white teen Mary Perkins, who spent saved money to help a evicted Negro family after hearing Sgt Bill Kimbro funded lodging, faced white teens’ beating and insults while the mayor dismissed lawful harassment. Mary’s act followed a basic neighborly rule and raises hope for change.
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Soviet Union
Sweetwater
Pla
Mary Perkins
Mary
Sgt
Bill Kimbro
Exiled to Europe Muskie And Agnew Trip Highlight Posture
The piece mocks the Spring Exodus from Washington as a political caper. It notes Spiro Agnew may prepare a kit for European visits while lawmakers dabble in grand gestures. The column suggests such trips weary the public but renew political stamina for next year.
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ED Muskie
Spiro Agnew
Modern poetry and classic tales in recent poetry anthologies
A catalog extract reviews Twentieth Century Chinese Poetry translated by Kai-yu Ilsu from Cornell and Yoruba Poetry edited by Ulli Beier with notes on Yoruba history. Henry James Stories of the Supernatural edited by Leon Edel presents ghost tales including The Turn of the Screw. North to Cree Lake by A L Karras recounts two brothers who fled hardship in 1932 Saskatchewan and spent seven years in the wilderness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kai-yu Ilsu
Cornell
Ita Shih
Henry James
Leon Edel
Taplinger
Saskatchewan
Wilds
Letters to the Editor on traps, taxes, and reform
Readers urge tarpaulins to prevent child accidents in Lomita holes and critique tax policy, school funding, and property values in Long Beach. A long open letter attacks immigration and racism, then ends with a dystopian call for reform and reclamation of land and humanity.
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Hernandez
Lomita
Long Beach
State Supreme Court
SOS
Reagan
el Dorado Park Estates
Orange County
Long Beach Unified School District
Astead
Norwalk
Farewell to the National Press Club Men’s Bar
Washington bids goodbye to the National Press Club Men’s Bar as women gain equal access to club facilities aside from the bar itself. The piece recalls the bar as a haven for reporters to commiserate, celebrate, and debate, featuring colorful anecdotes of cocktail hours, loyalties, and public disputes.
Men s bar in Washington reborn by women reporters
Walter T Ridder notes the public figure gossip hub once centered in Washington’s National Press Club bar. He laments the loss of masculine camaraderie as women reporters gain equality, claiming the bar was a clearing house for misinformation and that its atmosphere has changed irreparably.
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Julius Caesar
Washington
National Press Club
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Laszlo Kubinyi
Conn Humphreys
Shirley Saltman
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Ders
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Ayala
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Stei
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Hyde Park
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