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...Geneva Conservatoire. The spirits that mediums raise always inconveniently refuse to answer the very questions that would prove their existence. So far, Rosemary's musical familiars have been no exception. When TIME posed a choice of 20 musical mysteries for solution, Rosemary replied, "I cannot push a button and call on the composers just like that...
...understand, as the young cannot, why the older generation is afraid, and more sadly, why it is resentful of those who seem to have everything but gratitude. To both young and old, we are almost invisible. The young often see us as the cop-outs-as the shorthaired, button-down junior exec or the suburban housewife in a station wagon -and many of us are. Our parents and older brothers and sisters often see us as the fellow travelers of the youthful enemy, which many...
...screening is arduous, however. While Lyndon Johnson proudly showed visitors his 60-button telephone console, Nixon has just three direct lines?to Haldeman, Ehrlichman and Kissinger. Only four Cabinet members can count on getting through to Nixon at any time: Mitchell, of course, and Secretary of State William Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Labor Secretary George Shultz. Every program proposal is "staffed out," since Nixon dislikes to be unprepared when a visitor springs an idea on him. Haldeman supplies him with dossiers on everyone he is to see each day. In the competition for Nixon's attention, many ideas...
Every day, he'd rush home in time for American Bandstand at 8 p.m., and then one Saturday night he went to see Eddie Quinteros and Annette on the Dick Clark Show. Spider still had his IFIC button. As Spider walked up Quincy Streak, a tear skidded down his face. He wondered where Annette...
...were enjoying their visit. In the new, normal-size booths, the phone at first glance looks as if it has already been vandalized. There is no receiver-only a steel wall with a grille that hides-and protects-a recessed microphone. A loudspeaker is in the ceiling. Press a button, put in a dime, dial your number, and turn down the volume control if you don't want all the passers-by to hear the amplified voice of the speaker at the other end of the line. Gamblers and bookies hate the new phone, lovers are embarrassed...