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...TENURE. The committee probably will adopt the recommendation of several witnesses that Congress set a limit to an FBI director's term. Recalling Hoover's 48-year tenure, Ruckelshaus urged that a director be restricted to eight or nine years. Clark recommended four years, starting at the mid-point of a presidential term to ease the danger of Presidents and directors becoming too cozy. In fact, the Senate voted last spring to limit the director's term to ten years. A bill setting a 15-year limit is now before the House Judiciary Committee, which will...
...mid-point of the 1975 Holy Year. The 150,000 pilgrims attending the ordination and the throngs at other events were proof, it seemed, of the continuing strength of Catholic piety. The attendance is also something of a personal triumph for Paul. Whether at the 3½-hour ordination or at his massive weekly outdoor audiences, the rigors of ritual have served to rejuvenate the 77-year-old Pontiff...
...Harvard hits the mid-point unscathed, thanks to a defensive corps and a sophomore goalie that have matured rapidly, and a veteran offensive unit. Not many expected such early success...
...autograph seekers and frequently treated to a free dinner by local worthies. By last weekend, after rolling across rough subsidiary roads in Missouri (he is often refused permission to skate on interstate highways, which would cut his time considerably), he reached Tulsa, Okla., by his reckoning the exact mid-point in his journey. He may also have surpassed Hugh Hefner as the world's biggest Pepsi-Cola guzzler. Pepsi not only put up $1,500 for the trip but also staked the skater to all the pop he could drink, provided that he attire himself in Pepsi T shirts...
...Adviser Alan Greenspan adds that he expects the rate to range between 41% to 51% for several years. The Government's traditional "full employment" target is 4%; the irreducible jobless rate, composed of people moving between jobs and those only marginally employable, is a matter of guesswork. The mid-point of the experts' guesses is a shade more than...