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With Nixon, there is no confusion about which of his remarks can be published and which cannot; there is no difference between his public statements and private remarks. He plays no press favorites, tends to hold the entire corps at arm's length. Newsmen thus have little fear that they will be used, seduced, or played off against one another. If Nixon regards the press as a friendly adversary rather than an auxiliary tool of Government, his relative aloofness also means that reporters must work harder to scratch the smooth White House veneer and find what lies beneath...
...newcomers, as well as most veterans, seem fascinated by the mystery of the true nature of the emerging presidential Nixon. "None of us know this man very well," says Oberdorfer. Yet few fault him for his relative distance from the press. "A certain arm's-length position is a wholesome one on the part of press and President," says Peter Lisagor, who has been covering the White House for the Chicago Daily News since the Eisenhower days. "If we're too close, we lose our detachment, and if he's too close, we keep seeing...
Harvard's heavyweight crew stroked out to an early lead and coasted home with a two-length victory over Princeton to capture its 34th straight intercollegiate win and seventh consecutive Compton Cup title on Saturday, M.I.T. was a distant third...
...Crimson dropped to 41 for the second ten strokes and grabbed a three-seat lead. Both Harvard and Princeton settled to 37, but by the 500 meter mark, the Crimson had stretched its advantage to three-quarters of a length...
...Harvard Bridge half-way point, both crews were at 36, but the Crimson was in front by a length and a half. Tiffany called for power 20 and the Tigers were dead as Harvard shot out to a two-length margin...