Word: abzugs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though he is only 39, Manhattan Millionaire Stewart Mott is feeling old. But instead of wailing, he decided to go wassailing and celebrate his middle age with a Middle Ages party. He asked 667 of his friends (including Bella Abzug, Tammy Grimes and Norman Mailer) to "dress magnificantly -and medievally" and join him at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine for a feast. The menu included gyngere (gingered carp) and blancmange (spiced chicken in almond cream), all to be eaten only with fingers; potables were mead and hippocras (spiced wine). As the banquet's lord...
...President-elect who, during only one week of Cabinet choices, not only draws the disapproval of Ralph Nader, but also will not appoint Bella Abzug as Secretary of Transportation...
There were 18 women (13 Democrats and five Republicans) in the old House and 17 in the new. Two star-quality Democrats?New York's brassy Bella Abzug and Hawaii's pert Patsy Mink?gave up their seats in unsuccessful attempts to win Senate nominations. Abzug will be replaced by New York City Councilman Theodore S. Weiss, 48, who rejected suggestions that he vacate his Democratic nomination and let Abzug reclaim her old job. Mink's successor is Democrat Daniel Akaka, 51, a former aide to Hawaii's Governor George Ariyoshi...
...fight between Moynihan and Abzug was an ungentlemanly and unladylike brawl-even for New York's Democrats. Bullhorn-voiced and madly hatted, Congresswoman Abzug, serving her third liberal term in the House, scorned her opponent as being little more than a Republican masquerading as a Democrat, and made much of the fact that he had served Richard Nixon as puckish gadfly, adviser and, ultimately, Ambassador to India. In turn, Moynihan made Abzug sound like the wicked witch of the West Side, implying she was guilty of "demagoguery and hypocrisy" for proclaiming her support of Israel while not voting...
Antique Attitudes. In the end, Abzug was hurt the most by the fact that there were two other well-known and certified liberals in the primary race: New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer and Ramsey Clark, Lyndon Johnson's Attorney General. (The fifth Democratic candidate was a political maverick named Abraham Hirschfeld, a parking-garage builder.) On election Clark got 93,000 votes and O'Dwyer 84,000; Moynihan ended up with only a 327,000 to 318,000 victory over Bella...