Word: roomful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Archives in Washington is a windowless chamber that can be entered only by a handful of Government officials with top-secret clearance. Inside Room 2W-2 is a locked steel-wire cage that safeguards a political Pandora's box: 4,000 hours of still secret tape recordings from the darkest days of Richard Nixon's presidency...
Every morning, five archivists walk into the room, clamp on earphones and spend eight hours listening to tapes. They are cataloguing the conversations, according to a 1974 law that gave the Government possession of the secret recordings, as well as those that were made public during the Watergate investigations and trials. Eventually the Government intends to set up as many as eleven centers around the country to give historians, and just plain curious citizens, easy access to the recordings...
When Newsweek staffers arrived at their desks one morning last week, they found a cryptic memo from Editor Edward Kosner summoning them to a 10:30 meeting at Top of the Week, the conference room on the 40th floor of the magazine's Manhattan headquarters. When they arrived, they were surprised to find Katharine Graham, chairman of the parent Washington Post Co. Recounted one writer: "People began to murmur, 'God, we're closing down ... We've been bought...
Nothing so dramatic, but something quite unexpected. Kosner, 42, stepped onto the podium, announced tersely that he was leaving the magazine that day, thanked the staff and left the room to applause. The whole performance lasted perhaps two minutes. Then Graham took the podium and delivered another shock: Kosner's replacement would be Lester Bernstein, 58, a vice president for corporate communications at RCA who had left Newsweek in 1972 after being passed over for the editor's job. It was the fourth change in top editors at the magazine in the past ten years...
...that "miserable interrogatory": "What is all this worth?" Well, not a whole lot. Lansing Lamont '52 has written a book which will be noteworthy, if at all, only in the quickness of its declension to the Remainder Heap over at Barnes & Noble, or its ability to heat a small room at Fahrenheit...