Word: knitted
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...reading (mostly nonfiction), helps paint and redecorate the house and landscape the grounds. Finding the heckling unpleasant and the routine wearying, he gave up a lecture tour after six weeks. He and Mo encounter little neighborhood hostility, and entertain with small dinner parties for a tightly knit circle of friends (the best-known: Congressman Barry Goldwater Jr. and his wife Susan...
Among the exiles are members of Portugal's legendary "Twenty Families" -the tight-knit, moneyed oligarchy that completely dominated their nation's economy and cooperated closely with the fascist regime. While an M.F.A. blacklist prohibits all wealthy businessmen from emigrating, many have managed to flee. Some literally walked across the border into Spain, while others sailed from Portugal's ports in their yachts -before the navy began patrolling the coast to prevent such escapes...
...popularity rests, above all, on the change of tone he has brought to the White House. In contrast to his immediate predecessors, he is approachable, conciliatory and not consumed by personal ambition. He has divested the presidency of its imperial pretensions-with the invaluable assistance of his close-knit but independent-minded family (see page 10). So intent is he on demythologizing the nation's highest office that he has put a virtual ban on the playing of Hail to the Chief; he prefers to hear bands strike up the University of Michigan fight song, The Victors...
...which he believes is necessary if consumers are to "make a rational choice" among competing products. The FTC recently acted to permit pharmacists to advertise the price of prescription drugs (TIME, June 16). Engman would also like to break what he terms the "conspiracies of silence" by the closely knit associations of doctors, lawyers and funeral directors who do not now advertise their fees...
...relatively few who reached old age simply stayed at home, inevitably working less and less but expecting and getting as their rightful due more and more care from their families. Industrialization, urbanization and the automobile have ended that. Most Americans no longer live on farms or in closely knit family groups. Ever more mobile, Americans by the tens of millions do not stay rooted in one place all their lives but pull up stakes, move and move again. Of those who hold on in the old home town, few live out their lives in one house. Married couples rarely stay...