Word: personals
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Exeter Theatre will carry out the performance for only a nominal fee for each person who attends the showing...
Mitchell finds Nixon using him as a sounding board in making key decisions of politics and program; Kissinger virtually monopolizes the President's ear on foreign policy. Mitchell and Kissinger are envied and resented for their unrivaled influence. The appointed palace guards, Haldeman and Ehrlichman, screen nearly every person admitted to the President's lair and practically every piece of paper that reaches his desk or briefcase. They stir enmity because, their antagonists argue, the pair shuts him off from access to uncongenial views and even from members of his Cabinet...
...Nixon a memo. Nixon dislikes "the laying on of tongues," as White House locution has it, and much prefers spending three minutes reading a memo to hearing someone out in person for a quarter of an hour. Papers come down from the President with the scrawled notation: "Any comment? RMN." A neat red square is clipped to any urgent memo, any document seen by a key staffer is duly initialed, and everyone knows the deadlines for getting a note to Nixon. "If I have something ready by 2 p.m.," one aide says, "I know that the President will...
Nothing in its life became the Saturday Evening Post less than its leaving it. Born in 1821, the magazine bloomed over the first half of this century into an American institution almost as beloved as Thanksgiving. Then it was killed. Not suddenly, but slowly, painfully. Not by any one person but by many. The fact that the killing was not premeditated, that nobody really meant to do the magazine any harm, only made the death more ugly...
This point, however obvious, is instrumental in establishing the commonalty of friendship. "Every relationship between two people starts going sour if one person is more successful than the other," says Psychologist Wright. "There has to be an import-export quality to friendship. One exports what the other needs and vice versa. When the balance of payments is disturbed, there is a falling...