Word: wiring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, Broder suggests, presidential press conferences should be scaled down to human size. Noting that the wire services, networks and major publications combined have 30 to 40 White House correspondents, he concludes: "If those three dozen White House regulars are not competent to ask President Ford 95% of the pertinent questions each week, they ought to be replaced. If they are competent, as they surely are, then the other 200 of us ought to stay out of their way, and not go jamming into the East Room for the presidential press conference...
...dinner was an emotional affair. His wife and daughters were united against his quitting. Nixon had always said that he would "go down to the wire constitutionally." Julie and Tricia continued to argue that he should. Usually, after such a family dinner, the Nixons would watch a movie together. Last week there was only somber discussion, then tears and embraces...
...major newspapers, the wire services and TV networks, executives had been thinking about the possibility of a sudden vacancy in the White House since the first batch of tape transcripts was released April 30. ABC News President Elmer Lower began looking ahead even earlier: in June 1973 he recommended that outlines of coverage of a Nixon departure be drawn up; by Jan. 14 of this year, the network's SEEP (Special Events Emergency Plan) was fleshed out on paper. Prepared over several months, the New York Times's "quit package" grew to seven ready-to-print pages...
...this enveloping character of metamorphic fantasy that Miró responded. A painting like Landscape (The Hare) is its reduction: the horizon line drawn clean as a wire, yet with an irrational undular flourish; the absurd and soulful hare, like a creature from a comic strip. Its gaze is fixed on what appears to be a rifle ball, ricocheting in a spiral from the gun of a disembodied hunter. The color, too, is unique - the broad planes of earth and sky like a flag, interspersed by echoing flecks of red, or ange and yellow on the body of the hare...
Servan-Schreiber's brief tenure in the Cabinet came to an abrupt end after he read a wire-service report that France's nuclear-testing program in the Pacific Ocean would be resumed this month. Servan-Schreiber, a longtime opponent of testing, warned Chirac by telephone that he would speak out against the decision the next day. Chirac asked the volatile J.J.-S.S. to be "discreet," which was a bit like asking Martha Mitchell to abstain from telephone calls...