Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...correspondent who regularly covers the Justice Department, TIME'S Dean Fischer is thoroughly accustomed to taking down the measured words of pipe-smoking Attorney General John Mitchell. Interviewing Martha Mitchell is something else entirely, as Fischer found out a year ago during his first reporting session with her. When he arrived at the Mitchells' Watergate apartment, he was armed, as usual, only with pad and pen. "It was a mistake," Fischer recalls ruefully. "I asked her only a few questions, but her words tumbled out faster than I could write them down. At one point, watching me hastily...
...nearly half a century, under eight Presidents and 16 Attorneys General, J. Edgar Hoover has commanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the zeal and jealous authority of a Chinese war lord, protecting the U.S. against enemies within and his agency's turf against all meddling from without. Today, at 75, Hoover directs an army of more than 7,000 agents-with an extra 1,000 reinforcements on the way, authorized this year by Congress...
...again because the professor had disparaged Hoover's leadership.* (The professor later apologized, and five of the FBI students returned.) Last week Hoover came in for some insults that, he decided, demanded his personal attention. In a new book called Crime in America (see BOOKS), former Attorney General Ramsey Clark claimed, among other things, that Hoover ran the FBI with a "self-centered concern for his own reputation" and preferred archaic Red-hunting to effective war on organized crime...
...rare and lengthy personal interview in his mahogany-walled bastion. Clark, said Hoover, "was like a jellyfish . . . a softie," and "even worse than Bobby Kennedy. You never knew which way he was going to flop on an issue." By contrast, said Hoover, Ramsey's dad, former Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, was "a good strong man." The best of all, however, is Attorney General John Mitchell-"an honest, sincere and very human...
...Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Helsinki, which last week marked their first anniversary, the U.S. is resisting a Soviet demand that NATO's fighter-bombers be included in a general limitation of nuclear weapons...