Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number of items totaling $50 million in annual trade, the U.S. further trimmed its rates on semifinished aluminum products, tomato paste, small tobacco items and eyeglass frames, got lower tariffs for U.S.-made TV tubes in return. The Danes' dander rose over the tariff on live beef, which is an important Danish export. In retaliation, Danish negotiators tacked "reservations" onto their commitment to cut passenger-car tariffs 50%, will likely stand fast on a token 20% reduction...
Tough Grandfather. Before they broke for a luncheon of shrimp cocktail, roast beef and rice pilaf, they joshed about whether to eat at all. Kosygin said he was a tough grandfather. Having sipped coffee and iced tea during the morning meeting, he could go the rest of the day without food. Johnson prevailed, and lunch was served on a cloth-covered raw-wood table hastily hammered together by the White House kitchen staff, which had come up from Washington along with the food. During the meal, which was attended by Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, Secretary of State Dean Rusk...
...England. Despite its gourmet eminence, S.S. Pierce ran into trouble when supermarkets began stocking rival specialty foods to lure the well-to-do. Sales have stagnated around $35 million a year for a decade, and profits have lately dwindled to the vanishing point. Incoming President Williams hopes to beef up merchandising, tighten up controls on distribution, expand outside New England. All that makes outgoing President Pierce beam. "The market is there," says he, "if we get off our duffs. But we couldn't continue to carry the costs of operating alone...
L.B.J., he relates in page after fact-packed page, is "fond of soft, fattening foods-chipped beef, creamed chicken, beef stroganoff, lamb hash, stuffed peppers. He loves tapioca pudding. . . A homemade pie makes Mr. Johnson swallow with anticipation." When he is angry or irritated, "his mouth forms a huge 'O' and he sounds like a hog caller." He makes telephone calls while he dresses, so that he might be talking about the threat of thermonuclear war "with one leg thrust into the trousers." When he kisses Lady Bird, "he enfolds her in his arms and says goodnight...
...little with Hindus, cluster in separate urban ghettos, have a different written language (Urdu), and enjoy immunities from federal laws so that they, for example, may practice polygamy while other Indians must limit themselves to one wife at a time. Worst of all in Hindu eyes, Moslems are beef eaters, and they outrage their Hindu neighbors by slaughtering cows, which Hindus consider sacred. President Husain, whose own wife still wears a veil and lives in seclusion as the Prophet recommended, hopes to relax the vexing tensions between the two religious groups. "We must talk less, quarrel less, work hard...