Word: somewhat
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Frequent Visitor. A central if somewhat mysterious character in the affair is Nathan Voloshen, 71. Ostensibly, Voloshen is a Maryland attorney with New York connections, but his real trade is opening doors in Washington. He was named by the SEC as the link between Sweig and Parvin/Dohrmann. For his services in making the connection, Voloshen received $50,000 from the grateful firm. When Parvin/Dohrmann Chairman Delbert Coleman sought the services of Voloshen, there was little doubt that he could produce. Voloshen's was a familiar face in the Speaker's suite, a fact attested to by Herbert...
Members of the French-educated elite, including civil servants and many intellectuals, criticize the U.S. from a somewhat loftier level. They accuse the Americans of practicing a kind of cultural defoliation in Viet Nam. "We consider your country too young, and there is not much we can learn from you, save for what we call modern development," says one intellectual. "We tend to equate you with machines for whom there is no deep thinking." Says another: "Americans have no culture, unless you call beer and big bosoms culture." At Saigon's Cercle Sportif and around upper-middle-class dining...
...with its 75 million Ibs. of thrust; Nova's glitches, in fact, may well have cost the Russians the race to the moon. And there is no doubt that they find the loss embarrassing. Musing over the meaning of the Soyuz flights last week, a young Muscovite commented somewhat wistfully: "It's not much compared with the moon...
Even the.departure from the moon will be somewhat different. Once they rejoin Yankee Clipper 69 miles overhead, Conrad and Bean will send Intrepid's ascent stage crashing into the moon rather than into a lunar orbit. This will eliminate a potential hazard to future lunar navigation as well as cause enough of a thud to give earthbound seismologists a good calibration test of the new lunar seismometer. Next, the astronauts will shoot a series of closeup photographs of the moon, using both ordinary and infra-red film to help NASA planners pick out landing sites for the remaining eight...
...Paul McCracken to head the Council of Economic Advisers was made on the advice of "my good friend," Arthur Burns. It was Burns who also recommended Herbert Stein as a member of the three-man council and George Schultz to become Labor Secretary. His closeness to Nixon raises a somewhat ironic problem. The Federal Reserve is supposed to be independent of the President, and those who cherish this concept usually worry that the President might put too much pressure on the Board. In Burns' case, the question might rather be whether the Federal Reserve chairman would put pressure...