This Watergate summer of ’73 Richard Nixon was president. On July 23 he refused to turn over the presidential tape recordings. A Beachcomber reader quoted a letter from a Boston newspaper that said Nixon wasn’t hospitalized for the reasons officially announced, but for a hurry-up course of treatments for tapeworms. … Sari Harari, a clothing shop in Viking Village, advertised a “Watergate sale with sinking prices.” India print dresses sold for $2 and $3.

As the Justice Department was trying to clean up the White House, so the N.J.