Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...people are able to associate the beautiful for coat they wear with the bloody hide of the slaughtered animal," Gregory C. Wilson, leader of the Eudangered Species project, said yesterday. "To me, the most incongruous sight is that of a girl in a raccoon coat with a peace button on her lapol...
Late yesterday afternoon a young secretary wearing a peace button approached the manager of a looted jewelry store to tell him that she was "disgusted, and sympathetic with you." She said she wanted him to know that "the people who are interested in peace were not the people who broke your windows...