Word: beef
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...correspondents who beef about these complex arrangements, Assistant Secretary of Defense Arthur Sylvester replies: "Sure, we will float trial balloons. Reporters should ask themselves, 'What is he giving me this for?' and decide along with their editors, 'Do we want to go along with this?' There is always the wastebasket. But there is always the competition. They might print it. The only defense is to slip in a few lines showing that it is a floater...
...country's beef and wheat economy is in chaos, $600 million in foreign debts fall due this year with no way to pay, and the country's 3,000,000 followers of exiled Dictator Juan Perón have just won enough congressional seats to threaten government legislation. Argentina's violently anti-Perón military is again growing restless. "The position of the armed forces," commented a war ministry colonel, "is hardening...
...happen again." Growled NASA Director James Webb, "This was not an adequate performance by an astronaut." Gemini Pilots Virgil Grissom, 38, and John Young, 34, were on the carpet for something they did on their recent three-orbit mission. Gilruth and Webb told a congressional committee that the corned-beef-on-rye sandwich Young smuggled into their Molly Brown capsule and fed Grissom instead of the scientifically prepared flight diet was strictly unprogrammed. Mincing no words, the administrators decreed that henceforth "corned-beef-sandwich incidents" will cease. O.K. But how about bagels...
...operators grumble that soaring costs will dampen the $90 million-a-year tourist trade. The cost of living, up 19% last year, spiraled another 9% in 1965's first quarter. The hardest hit was food, which has risen an average 30% in the past year; such items as beef, pork, apples, potatoes and top-quality slivovitz (plum brandy) have jumped between 50% and 100%. Prices have also risen for everything from haircuts to shirts. Though wages have risen by one-third (to an average $53 monthly), many people have to moonlight to make ends meet. The latest tale wagging...
...Jack figures he's got the problem licked. He's keeping himself at a practically svelte 208 Ibs. nowadays, and hardly anybody calls him "Baby Beef" any more. He has even learned to smile - which, in Jack's case, is not as easy as it sounds. "For some reason," he explains, "it's hard to make a big smile on my face. Other people just move their lips and they've got the nicest, biggest smile. I have to work...