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...preface to The Ends of Power, Bob Haldeman warns us that he and his collaborator are disciples of the School of the Imagined Quotation, after Woodward and Bernstein. At first, the irony of that amused me; but as I got into the book, I found myself saying?within their quotation marks ?things I know I never said. That did not amuse...
Like other veterans of Watergate, Haldeman has a theory on the identity of the celebrated "Deep Throat" source of Washington Post Watergate Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. His "candidate," as he puts it, is Fred Fielding, Dean's White House deputy. As aide to Nixon's nemesis, Fielding has been on most such speculative source lists, but he said again last week that Haldeman's charge was "sheer fantasy." Fielding has shown TIME passports and photographs indicating that he was in Bolivia in late January 1973, when All the President's Men describes one specific...
Screenplay by William Bast and Walter Bernstein...
...Harvard machine occupied a large room and sounded, in the words of Physicist-Author Jeremy Bernstein, "like a roomful of ladies knitting." The noise came from the rapid opening and closing of thousands of little switches, and it represented an enormous information flow and extremely long calculations for the time. In less than five seconds, Mark I could multiply two 23-digit numbers, a record that lasted until ENIAC'S debut two years later. But how? In part, the answer lies in a beguilingly simple form of arithmetic: the binary system. Instead of the ten digits (0 through...
...this cozy relationship with officials that Disini apparently used on behalf of Westinghouse. For a while, reported TIME'S Bernstein last week, it seemed that the nuclear plant deal had been locked up by Westinghouse's chief competitor. General Electric. The Philippine National Power Corporation had finished preliminary feasibility studies by early 1974 and had signed a contract with G.E.'s local consulting firm. According to knowledgeable Philippine businessmen, Marcos then unexpectedly intervened and stunned a number of advisers by ordering that the profitable contract be awarded to Westinghouse instead...