Word: takings
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Monday, October 13 CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Old Vaudevillians Donald O'Connor and Jimmy Durante take a few turns...
LIKE too many other small American communities, rural Surgoinsville, Tenn., has no doctor. When the town's only physician died in 1966, there was no one to take his place; his modern clinic has been closed ever since, and the 5,000 people who live in and around the little northeastern Tennessee community were forced to drive 28 miles to visit the nearest doctor in a neighboring town. Several months ago, the Rev. Robert E. Button, 28, one of a group of citizens who had been searching for a new doctor, saw an advertisement in TIME placed...
...take an alarmist of Chicken Little proportions to discern that bits of sky were falling on the Nixon Administration. The Haynsworth case, the Green Beret debacle, disarray in the Justice Department, the Republican loss in a congressional special election, bitter debate over Viet Nam-all at once all the news was bad. Yet somehow, Nixon seemed unconcerned and aloof from it all. Hugh Sidey, TIME'S Washington Bureau chief, found that attitude perhaps as alarming as the events themselves in the most trying time Nixon has yet had in office, and offered this analysis...
...style has been that of the corporate man rather than the public official-or at least a version of the corporate man who is insulated and protected from outside scrutiny of his decision-making processes. He has lived in lush privacy, unhurried and at times seemingly unconcerned. Others take the clue. They congregate in the splendor of the Watergate apartments, entertain each other and are either unaware of the mounting problems or not certain how to meet them...
...deep divisions in society. Yet Nixon has not tended the shop. He has not, in fact, worked hard enough at the job. That does not mean a President must shout and heave like Lyndon Johnson. But a President must stay in there and slug away from dawn to night. Take breaks, certainly. But all these experiments in running a government from the banks of the Pedernales or the Pacific shore are exercises in selfdelusion. Washington is home and office for a President of the U.S. in this age; Nixon ended last week with another trip to Florida...