Word: savors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annual marvel that the White House melts so beautifully into human form at this time of year. The gears of state slow, the political combatants quiet down-ever so slightly. There is much to savor. Billy Graham preached at a Sunday morning service in the East Room ("In the midst of all this chaos and crisis comes the message of Christmas, with all of its hope, good will and cheer"), and the soaring strains of Joy to the World and Mary Had a Baby rang out from the Army chorus. The White House staff, from lawyers to clerks, came together...
...interesting as the present, are certain to rank Watergate paramount on any list of presidential misdeeds, but that is not to say that they will regard the present as more corrupt than earlier times. In fact, less so. To think otherwise is to fail to appreciate the high savor of Boss Tweed's New York or General Grant's America...
...puts in a continuous appearance on the Senate Watergate committee. Now it turns out that he has also been making notes-for a novel. Although it is not intended to be autobiographical, it will trace the rise of a country lawyer to the Senate. Praising Author Baker's savor of his fellow Tennesseans, his publisher, Doubleday & Co., is encouraging him to include a relationship that links the freshman politico with a venerable Senator who sounds remarkably like Baker's own colleague, Senator Sam Ervin...
...Seine is a river of filth; yet Parisians willingly drink its waters. The Moskva traces an equally grimy course through Moscow, but Muscovites will soon be able to hold a glass under the kitchen faucet and savor Moskva water straight. The citizens of Singapore and Amsterdam, too, will shortly be able to drink from their polluted rivers. Between the stream and the lip, in all these cases, is a remarkable process developed in France that changes effluent into elixir...
Gentler Pace. In Europe, West Germany is the biggest buyer of Japan's goods in general (almost $1 billion worth last year), but Britain is likely to be the chief beneficiary of Japanese in vestment. Japanese find English the easiest European language to learn, and they savor the English way of life. Says Mitsui's Sadao Oba, one of the more than 4,000 Japanese businessmen living in greater London: "I like the quiet very much. I like the gentler pace of life." English employees in Japanese firms often return the compliment (see box previous page...