Word: abner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took his guests on a tour of the modest five-room Spanish-style house to which he and Nancy escape whenever they can. Reporters passed a poster advertising an old movie (Talk About a Stranger), a U.S. Army recruiting poster, an autographed Al Capp cartoon of Li'l Abner and a tile floor the Reagans laid themselves. Wearing an assortment of cowboy hats and a state policeman's hat, Reagan posed for photos and then asked his visitors to sign a guest book. He said that the ranch provided him the chance to drain away tensions by digging...
Five Crimson errors hardly helped the cause of starter Larry Brown and three relievers; three Navy home runs (two by Ed Abner, one a grand slam) helped even less...
Walker might be stronger if he had not made such extravagant claims for himself. Says Congressman Abner Mikva, who has not endorsed either candidate: "When you blow your horn as often and as loud as Walker has, people start expecting a knight in shining armor." Walker indicated he would cut the state budget; instead, it increased from $7.6 billion when he took office in 1973 to a projected $9.9 billion for fiscal 1977. He pledged an immaculately clean government, but a huge Medicaid scandal has shaken his administration (TIME, Feb. 23). He said he would end patronage abuses...
Explaining Ford's proposal to a House Social Security subcommittee last week, David Mathews, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, ran into similar flak. Asked Representative Abner Mikva, an Illinois Democrat: "How do you explain to a factory worker that money withheld from his paycheck, over which he has absolutely no control, is not a tax?" Mikva says that the time has finally arrived "to blow the whistle" on the ideas that Social Security is an insurance program and that the payroll tax is somehow different from other taxes...
Doonesbury 's author acknowledges his predecessors with equal alacrity. He has been known to sneak a caricature of Snoopy into his early works, and Li'I Abner's creator says Trudeau once ran up to him and gushed, "I've just been introduced as the young Al Capp. Gee, that was the greatest compliment I ever...