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...Audit. For all the activity, however, Richard Nixon was in fact on vacation. Most of the week he stayed secluded behind the walls of the windswept presidential compound. Some days he did not even walk the 100 yds. from his Spanish-style house to his office; often he would telephone members of the skeleton staff that accompanied him to California rather than meet with them in person. He spent a quiet New Year's Eve with Wife Pat and Daughter Tricia, then devoted the next day to watching televised bowl games with his close friend Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo...
There seems now to be a widespread acknowledgment that the bar cannot afford to back away from its new concerns. As one state bar ethics committee observed in an annual report, the profession "has a headache that cries out for fast relief. We will compound our own cure or someone will mix up a dose that will curl our hair...
...clever sell-out to Wall Street. But seldom has an event so quickly inspired so many different self-serving interpretations as the Watergate scandal. In the last year and a half, the nation has witnessed the creation of a Watergate mythology which, if it prevails, will compound the disaster by obscuring its causes and preventing their correction...
Terse Announcement. The session lasted 4½ hours, making it the longest so far. Outside, the day changed from a bright, clear November morning into a raging sandstorm, but inside the tent the negotiating continued. At one point, Yariv walked over to the Israeli tent within the U.N. compound, to telephone Jerusalem. Later, both Yariv and Gamasi meandered out of the U.N. tent and talked earnestly together for a long time, as clouds of desert sand swirled around them. Finally, the conference ended with the terse announcement that the talks would continue the next...
...boycott ends in three months or so. Eckstein fixes the inflation rate somewhat higher: 7% to 7.5% for the year. Moreover, the oil shortage, by adding all kinds of new inefficiencies to tasks ranging from selling new cars to keeping assembly lines running round-the-clock, could compound a disturbing decline in worker productivity-already a major factor in sustaining heavy rates of inflation...