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Great events produce newspapers and magazines that people instinctively preserve for their historic import. But most Americans today who have set aside issues of the recent momentous weeks to relive the tumult with their children and grandchildren will, 50 years hence, confront what today's grandparent usually finds on a trip to the attic - crumbling, yellowed newspapers inexorably turning to dust. A few years ago an assistant professor of librarianship at the University of Washington named Richard Smith devised a simple formula for ensuring the survival of history-making newsprint. His innovation is ripe for use now. The recipe...
...Richard Nixon who impeded the FBI's investigation of the Watergate affair," the minority report declared. "It was Richard Nixon who created and preserved the evidence of that transgression and ... concealed its terrible import, even from his own counsel, until he could do so no longer." The ten Republicans collectively noted "the self-inflicted nature" of Nixon's Watergate troubles and wondered how "such an able, experienced and perceptive man" could have "imprisoned the truth about his role in the Watergate cover-up so long and so tightly within the solitude of his Oval Office that it could...
...tens of thousands of upwardly mobile associate faculty members and grad students have been able to cultivate tastes to match their salaries (or ambition) at a number of import and gourmet shops. They also do very well, but their market is very fluid, and, as a result, they have a tendency to come...
When the Nixon statement and the transcripts were finally released late in the afternoon in a mobbed White House pressroom, the words of the conversations were indeed damning. But the Nixon explanation glossed over the import with patronizingly mild language. Nixon implied that he had forgotten all about those June 23 conversations with Haldeman until he had reviewed his tapes in May. Only then, he suggested, had he "recognized that these presented potential problems." But he did not tell his counsel or the Judiciary Committee because, "I did not realize the extent of the implications which these conversations might...
...When angry cattle farmers, fearing that the toads would eat the dung beetles that eat disease-spreading flies, demanded that the education department pay a $1,500 reward for each toad, the federal government in Canberra countered that such an absurdly high bounty might lead to the clandestine import of more toads from Queensland. Anticipating that, the Northern Territory promised to fine all Bufo bootleggers...