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...much feared palace guard emerges as more petty than sinister. Magruder describes how Haldeman once gave his young aide Larry Higby a brutal dressing-down for failing to provide a golf cart to take him 200 yds. across the presidential compound at San Clemente. Haldeman loved to make his far-flung assistants jump by activating their Pageboy beepers, especially when traveling in Air Force One: "[Nixon] and Haldeman and Chapin and the others in the traveling entourage would get up there, 30,000 ft. above the earth, and something would happen to them. It must have been the close...
...concern as the Medical School power plant. Students are affected daily by its decisions, yet few could say who the Corporation is or what it does. Those students who are aware of it have a sense that the Corporation is a powerful group, wielding ultimate authority in a far-flung and decentralized bureaucracy in which no one claims to hold power. Yet Corporation members themselves insist they are just another rung in the bureaucratic ladder and that their business is by-and-large routine and trivial...
...drinks little. Though she does not fuss over gourmet food, she is a competent cook. Not that she spent much time at the stove in her single days. Through her work with the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund and from trips with the Governor, Nancy collected a large, far-flung circle of friends and acquaintances who always called her up when they were in town. However, men who dated her quickly learned that Kissinger was in the background. A couple of years ago, one friend urged Nancy either to marry him or start playing the field in order to find someone...
...week asked the CAB for a $194 million annual subsidy. Seawell, who last year piloted his fleet into the profit column for the first time in five years, told the CAB: "We were overwhelmed in our efforts to stay in the black." TWA, which unlike Pan Am has a far-flung network of domestic routes to supplement its international operations, has been off subsidy for 20 years and did not specify the exact amount of aid it seeks. Nonetheless, President Forwood C. ("Bud") Wiser Jr. estimated a 1974 pretax loss, without subsidy, of $47.2 million, compared with a 1973 profit...
...retailers. Mail-order sales of Sears, Roebuck, Montgomery Ward and other catalogue houses are surging as more energy-conscious shoppers let their fingers do the traveling. Some store chains report that their long-languishing downtown branches are jammed with customers unwilling to motor to far-flung suburban shopping centers. Department stores report strong sales of books, games, television sets and other aids to a quiet evening at home. Other hot items include furniture, household hardware, seeds and garden supplies, and backyard swimming pools. "People are paying more attention to their homes," explains G. John Doces, president of Seattle...