Word: cloth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOCIAL INSECURITY. David Seidman, 68, once looked forward to a comfortable retirement. He had worked 20 years as a cloth cutter in Los Angeles, earning $160 a week when he left and had invested $8,000 in a savings and loan. But inflation has robbed Seidman of his dreams. "I am now living on social insecurity and a little interest from my savings," he says bitterly. "If I had not had that I would have died...
...verge of dropping him, Nixon proved equal to his first real crisis. On radio and television, he insisted that the fund was used for political and not personal expenses, that he was a man of modest means whose wife did not wear mink but "a respectable Republican cloth coat," and that yes, there was one gift he was going to keep - a black and white cocker spaniel named Checkers. Though many found "the Checkers speech" full of cant and treacly sentimentality, the flood of favorable telegrams persuaded Eisenhower to execute a smart about-face...
...spent $4,562.38 in leftover campaign funds for earrings for Pat Nixon would not ordinarily have been of much consequence. But it was perceived as a vivid symbol, calling immediately to mind a much younger Richard Nixon who bragged on television that his wife wore only a "respectable Republican cloth coat." Strategically, the allegation was also important to investigators because it helped them trace the means by which much of Nixon's campaign funds had apparently been "laundered...
...range of colors, weights, twists of threads natural and man-made that have been deliberately arranged to create an almost infinite variety of patterns. The fabrics take on an incredibly sensual quality that belies the mechanical method by which they were produced. Because they are juxtaposed with the cloth pieces, the graphic prints are seen as magnifications of the patterns that had been created by the interweaving of threads...
...primary victim here is a young Senator, cut whole from the Kennedy cloth, whose brief appearance before he is done in hardly makes him seem a threat to any imaginable aspect of the status quo. Still, witnesses to the crime start dying at a rate far exceeding actuarial probability, thus arousing the suspicions of a newsman of counterculturish leanings. Played with a certain cheeky energy by Warren Beatty. the reporter soon becomes a target himself, then goes underground the better to penetrate an industrial security organization that apparently supplied the hit men for this series of crimes...