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...return to the familiar rhythms of September. For President, Vice President, for the nation, there was as yet no real surcease of crises; all the grave questions were yet to be satisfactorily answered and trust was yet to be restored. But the true American new year begins each autumn with the end of vacations, the recall to jobs and schools, fresh starts on the ordinary business of life, the re sumption of friendly routines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: Autumn in the Shade of Watergate | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...local preoccupations and private distractions in the quickening pace of autumn, the sum of concerns represented by Watergate and its abuses of public trust and presidential power still hung in the air. The astonishing bundle of national contradictions remained: most Americans are weary of Watergate but they nonetheless want Ervin, Cox & Co. to finish their appointed tasks and probe it to its roots. Most Americans want to see Nixon finish out his term as President, but they still believe he is guilty of impeachable crimes. Most Americans, in spite of everything, still see Nixon as the best man now around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE MOOD: Autumn in the Shade of Watergate | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

...days are noticeably cooler than only a few weeks ago, and, for many, sleep finally comes easily at night. Autumn has arrived--a time for inflating the presidential pigskin. The season of year has proved enough to raise the spirits of the nation's number one football fan. Mr. Nixon, we are told, is on the rebound...

Author: By --thomas H. Lee jr., | Title: Nixon's Fall | 9/19/1973 | See Source »

...very simple. You pay your $1.50 and walk through the 50-ft. metal gateway poles hung with red-and-blue banners. You leave behind inflation, traffic jams, Watergate and the impending struggle of the autumn harvest. Ahead of you, the Ferris wheel arcs into the blue sky over beyond the livestock barns; a lemon-shake stand squeezes between a tractor exhibit and the milking parlor; on your left, the Pleasantville Community School stage band is warming up for a concert, and over there, an hour from now, the quilt-making demonstrations will begin. Pick up some cotton candy along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: A Mecca Along the Midway | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

...pilgrims about the "ignoble and blasphemous outrage." Two days later, an outfit called "Catholic Moralists" threw homemade bombs at the Rome residence of the Danish ambassador and left a note calling Denmark "the pigsty of Europe." Meanwhile, French authorities forbade production of the movie near Avignon as planned this autumn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 10, 1973 | 9/10/1973 | See Source »

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