Word: bobbed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some of them take notes on the sheep wisdom being dispensed by experts. "If you comb the fecal matter out of your fleeces, they will bring higher prices," Bob Stewart, a professional wool buyer for Homestead Woolen Mills, explains to a small crowd, while everyone furiously scribbles down every word...
There are practically as many varieties of sheep chicers as there are of sheep. Take Bob Warn and his wife Pat. A 67-year-old retired Air Force officer, Warn moved from suburban New Jersey to northern New Hampshire a year ago, plunked down several hundred dollars to fence a one-acre pasture and started taking orders for next year's spring lambs. Their "flock" of two newly purchased Southdown Dorset crossbred ewes hasn't even been delivered yet. "First I want to learn to spin," explains Pat, a thin, exuberant woman clutching a sheaf of notes from...
...very picture of an old New Hampshire sheep farmer, complete with white Lincolnesque beard and a bun of graying hair tucked under a shepherd's cap, turns out to be Bob Richardson, a former candymaker from the Atlantic City, N.J., area. Richardson gave up the trade to become a sawmill worker after some health food fanatics convinced him that candy is poison. Now he lives in Rumney, N.H. (pop. 820) with his three sheep. Says he: "A neighbor had these two, and they were going to be slaughtered if they weren't sold. So we bought them...
...sold out through June; now the house is booked into September. And besides picking up five Tony Award nominations, the show won the New York Drama Critics Award as the year's best musical, against such high-powered competition as Liza Minnelli's The Act and Bob Fosse's Dancin...
Executive Pay. Responding to Carter's call, several companies volunteered to hold pay raises of high executives to 5% or less this year. General Motors and Time Inc. joined the list. So did A T & T, after its chairman, John deButts, got a wheedling phone call from Bob Strauss, who typically asks business leaders, "What can you put in the pot?" Ford, R.C.A., Westinghouse and some other companies were studying the idea. Meanwhile, the House Appropriations Committee voted to deny scheduled pay increases this year to some 16,000 federal executives earning more than...