Word: familiarizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giving his version of how the Watergate operation began, Haldeman endorses the familiar-but never convincingly documented-theories that the Democrats knew about the plans for the bugging in advance and let it happen to entrap the Republicans. Says Larry O'Brien: "That's baloney. That's a real crock." Haldeman further suggests that the CIA knew all along about the plans and may even have sabotaged them to discourage Nixon from developing any unofficial intelligence capability or seeking political control over the CIA. Former CIA Director Richard Helms said last week that his Senate Watergate testimony...
...allowed ten days ago to film the interior of the printing plant on the condition that its location not be revealed. TIME, which had made an offer for magazine rights to the book, attempted to determine the highlights of its contents by talking to some of those who were familiar with the work. Lipscomb two weeks ago offered to confirm or deny some details TIME had learned, but changed his mind after he had heard them...
...RICH CHILDREN, on the other hand, provide a crystal-clear window into their parents' minds, and Coles is on familiar ground in presenting their lives. As a reviewer, I am perhaps prejudiced by my own first-hand knowledge of how the rich live. Growing up in Greenwich, Connecticut, the descriptions of homes as "dramatic and secluded; old, historic and architecturally interesting; large with good grounds; private and palatial..." conjure up scenes that I have come into contact with. And while I have not lived inside these homes of the very rich, I know how parents with money have worked...
...stockbroker from a prominent family who was describing a social phenomenon that he saw in his children. Coles has adopted the idea to "describe what perhaps all quite well-off Americans transmit to their children--an important psychological common denominator, I believe: an emotional expression, really, of those familiar, class-bound prerogatives, money and power...
...opportunities for women in coal mining. Another part describes emerging small industries run by women, such as quilting cooperatives; only recently have these women begun to market and sell the region's traditional crafts and handwork. The book's food and nutrition section contains information on gardening and canning, familiar chores for most Appalachian women...