Word: buttons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political fate. The President's personal and personable secretary sat uncomfortably in a Washington federal courtroom and told a confused and tangled story of how she had, after all, made "a terrible mistake." Contrary to her testimony of Nov. 8, she said that she apparently had pushed the wrong button on a recorder and erased a potentially crucial portion of one of Nixon's Watergate-related tape recordings...
...strange phenomenon occurs in the Elm City come the third week of November. Suddenly sportswriters take a liking to the shift button on their typewriters. If they quote anyone talking about the two teams' upcoming contest, the reference is not to 'the game' but to 'The Game.' And as kickoff-time approaches the sickness grows to epidemic proportions: no longer 'the game' or even 'The Game,' suddenly the confrontation is labeled 'THE GAME...
Other members of the Business section pitched in to produce the complex story of the oil siege. Contributing Editor Donald Morrison wrote a box on the inscrutable King Feisal, with the help of Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein. Reporter-Researchers Bonita Siverd and Sally Button also contributed to the story, which was edited by Senior Editor Marshall Loeb. "People like to say that the Arabs are unpredictable," Loeb points out, "but they have been warning us all along of what they would do. The U.S. Government just failed to take them seriously. We have been terribly wasteful with our resources...
...contest was run very much like the old television show, College Bowl. There were two five-member teams playing thirty minute halves. The first team member to press his button had to answer the question by himself. If he missed, the other squad could confer for ten seconds before answering. Questions were assigned different point values, based on their difficulty...
George L. Wessel, an enrolled Republican who heads the AFL-CIO Council in Buffalo, feels that Nixon is "such an egoist that he's liable to burst and push the red button, and then we'd be at war." Despite the efforts of the Republican Party to dissociate itself from Watergate, it appears to have been badly hurt. G.O.P. fortunes seem dim in New Jersey, where voters are selecting a new Governor, and party coffers are empty. "I think the vote is going to be so low that it will be a repudiation of everybody," says a G.O.P...