Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Four former Nixon aides, who needed to know where Nixon was at all times, had locator boxes in their offices. They were: H.R. Haldeman, onetime chief of staff; Dwight L. Chapin, onetime presidential appointments secretary; Stephen B. Bull, who assisted Chapin with appointments; and Butterfield, then a Haldeman aide. Butterfield also had on his phone a button that could turn on the microphones in the Cabinet Room. When the locator box indicated that the President had entered the Cabinet Room, Butterfield pressed a switch that started the recording device there. Under the table in the Cabinet Room were two buttons...
Meanwhile, Portuguese intellectuals protested the banning of the books as did the American P.E.N., the noted association of writers. A group of British authors, among them Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch and Stephen Spender, wrote a letter to the Times of London attesting to the book's literary value and "strict moral intention...
...authors, Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkins, have worked overtime to build into the script bursts of quick insight. In the midst of one of Coburn's lengthy sneering speeches, he explains how he considered and then rejected the idea of buying a tropical island populated by a group of natives ready to accept him as sole owner and king. "You poor people," he realizes, "You don't deserve a good king like...
Although the incidence of petty thefts of personal and University property remains high, Stephen S. J. Hall, vice president for Administration, says that the steady upsurge in thefts over the last few years seems to have levelled off in the second half of this year to about $1200 to $1500 per week. Hall says that this is at least partially due to increased awareness and security precautions on the part of students, administrators and police, especially since the January rash of armed robberies...
...Stephen Sondheim (the Broadway composer who is himself a famous game player) and Anthony Perkins (the estimable actor) have outsmarted themselves in crafting their script. Their plot is so fiendishly difficult that their characters spend most of the time bogged down in endless expository scenes...