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...White House counterattack on the Watergate hearings was under way. At a state dinner honoring Japan's Premier Kakuei Tanaka, without directly mentioning the scandal, President Nixon declared: "Let others spend their time dealing with the murky, small, unimportant, vicious little things. We have spent our time and will spend our time in building a better world." Moments later, he deplored again "the petty little indecent things that seem to obsess...
...funds and attempts to misuse and interfere with elections, courts, prosecutors, the FBI and CIA-all admitted and committed or condoned by at least some high officials or presidential aides. There was also a sense of detachment to the point of unreality about the statement, as if the "murky, vicious" things had been committed far away from the White House in some obscure corner of the land and the investigators, rather than doing their obvious duty, were perversely dragging them into public view...
...spartan existence on lonely wilderness trails espoused by Philip Taubman. In the backwoods are the piercing cacophony of songbirds, the harassment by vicious chipmunks and other wild beasts, the choking fumes of wildflowers. Give me the trailer camp with the solidity of concrete beneath my feet, the rich aroma of half-burned gasoline, the reassuring hum of the flush toilet, the wall-to-wall people. Ah, the great outdoors...
...proscriptions. A swifter result was the easy intimidation of the film industry, which created a blacklist barring not merely the Ten but hundreds of others from work in Hollywood and in theater, radio and the infant television business. The inquiries also led to the creation of a new and vicious class of entrepreneurs, freelance "experts" in subversion, who made a good thing out of compiling and peddling lists of half-forgotten contributions (of money, tal ent, names) to left-wing causes...
...Vicious Cycle. Just across New York's Northeastern border, Vermont has learned the hard way that large subdivisions are scarcely an unmixed blessing. Indeed they can touch off a vicious cycle of poor land use. It usually begins with the yearning of city dwellers for a second home in unspoiled surroundings. When developers move in to meet the demand, land prices rise. In the past five years, for instance, the average value of a Vermont acre has jumped from $200 to $500; the price of land near many ski or lake resorts has quadrupled to $2,000 an acre...