Word: digester
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just pucking around this morning, with a few random hockey thoughts to digest with your Wheaties...
...roomis furnished in imitation gold-leafed Louis XIV, with mustard velvet upholstery and matching floor length drapes. There are three six-year-old portraits of the Rath children above the fireplace and a bust of Andrew Carnegie on the mantle; the opposite wall is all mirror. National Geographic, Readers' Digest and Businessweek lie on a coffee table along with Mechanics Illustrated and a Bible. There are no ashtrays to be found...
...Damascus to meet with Syrian leaders, who have so far steadfastly boycotted all peace negotiations. Though he had achieved disengagement in the Sinai, there were such knotty problems remaining as the fate of the Palestinian refugees and the ultimate control of Jerusalem. Tartly commented The Arab World, a daily digest of Middle Eastern news published in Beirut: "Judging by the fact that Kissinger had to visit the Middle East three times before even the disengagement problem was sorted out, he might, if he is going to follow the same course, spend the rest of his working life shuttling between Israel...
...White House's hope that saturation reporting would aid Nixon's Operation Candor proved illusory. News accounts, unable to digest or isolate the wealth of material released by Presidential aides, pointed out how many questions remained unanswered. Many papers in the Sunday editions followed the United Press International lead, which stressed the fact that Nixon had tripled his personal wealth while in office...
...usual, Jerry Ford bounced into the' day at 6 a.m., rising after only 5Y2 hours of sleep. He skimmed the Washington Post-"I turn to the sports pages first" -and then he spent 20 minutes speed-reading a copy of the detailed daily news digest that is prepared for President Nixon. By 8 a.m., along with other House chieftains, Minority Leader Ford was at the State Department for a 90-minute breakfast briefing by Secretary Henry Kissinger, whom Ford deeply respects. Then he settled down to spend a large part of this momentous day with wife Betty and their...