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...President," Haldeman explains. Nixon's rhythms of work are carefully plotted, and an elaborate machinery processes communications into the White House. Into the offices of deputies and assistants on the West Wing main floor, in the White House basement and in the nearby gray stone Executive Office Building pour reports from every branch of Government, information from around the nation and world, requests from Government officials and private citizens to see the President or his highest advisers. Even omitting secretaries and stenographers, the White House staff numbers more than 150. the largest of any President. The pipelines to the Oval...
...President nonetheless has at his command the greatest information-gathering mechanism in the world. It is an untidy, ungainly monster. Cables by the thousands pour in daily to the Pentagon, the State Department and the CIA, in time of crisis or relative calm. In the Nixon Administration, the departments and agencies funnel their foreign intelligence through National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger. At roughly 9 o'clock each morning, he passes a 20-page summary on to the President, along with special memos of his own. During the day, Kissinger clips vital cables and forwards them to Nixon, sometimes hourly...
...S.D.S. Weathermen on the rampage last fall in Chicago. "I got the story because I can run like a scared antelope when I have to," he says. "I ran five miles with those kids that night, and I kept up with them." After the running, he really had to pour on the steam, banging out some ten pages against a deadline only 40 minutes away, finishing so close to it that he did not even have a chance to read the story over. In the eyewitness account, Fitzpatrick refuses to moralize. Instead, he creates a word picture of the rampage...
...Pour and Search. They chose a novel format called the charrette, a kind of civic group therapy in which all parts of the community, assisted by outside experts, are encouraged to pour out their complaints and to work together in search of specific reforms. Developed two years ago for an urban education project at Ohio State University's School of Architecture, the charrette* depends on the constant interplay of ideas. Its most important aspect is the participation of people normally outside the decision-making process. When the concept was imported to York by the city's Community Progress...
...Southwest and Rocky Mountains: Many parts of these Western regions are still growing strongly, because fresh money continues to pour into their relatively new industries. Unemployment in Houston is a modest 2% of the labor force; the few employees let go by the Manned Spacecraft Center have been quickly hired by other industries. Though sections of the Rocky Mountain region face unemployment problems, a surge of commercial construction is remaking Denver's skyline and creating new jobs. Projects abuilding range from a $5.2 million United Air Lines reservations system center to a $300 million commercial, industrial and residential complex...