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...illustrate the effect of the domestic program cuts, a group of Democratic Senators ate the kind of school lunch that would be allowable under new minimum standards proposed by the Agriculture Department-a 1.5-oz. beef and soybean patty, one slice of bread, six french fries, six ounces of milk, and catsup and relish as vegetables. Said Patrick Leahy of Vermont: "This is absolutely obscene." Shortly afterward, Stockman announced that the new proposals would be withdrawn. Said he: "It was a bureaucratic goof...
...Harvard ate up yardage on the ground on its first possession of the second half, with Acheson galloping to a ten-yard gain and a first down...
...Aminda Badeau, who was to be his wife for 51 years, and for the first time became aware of "the magnitude of racial bias in the U.S." Schools, movies, restaurants, even drinking fountains were segregated. "It was a slow accumulation of humiliations and grievances," he recalled. "Kansas City ate my heart out. It was a Jim Crow town through and through...
...better, by pouring all this awesome bake sale-hair-cut-a-thon-door-to-door-backyard-carnival energy into affirming loud and clear on nationwide tube all their values and habits and virtues and petty vices. If only everyone looked like them, and spent their time like them and ate and shopped where they did and listened to their records, then everything would be all right. And everything was almost all right anyway. The only people who criticize the telethon and all it stands for are "the people who can't understand the joy we're sharing," Lewis says...
...takes days to prepare and 20 minutes to eat. They ate 320 people in a 20-minute press conference today...