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...living last year. He has accused farmers of asking for crop subsidies that might create double-digit food inflation next year. He has criticized Congress-and indirectly even the White House-for appearing to cave in to the farmers' demands. Bosworth has also become an effective jaw-boner. Two weeks ago. he masterminded the Administration's successful effort to prevent the nation's steelmakers from following U.S. Steel in its attempt to raise prices far beyond what would have been justified by the settlement won by striking coal miners. His tactic-phoning U.S. Steel's competitors...
...that I have anything personal against sado-masochism, but how is that going to solve my problem? When I say problem, I mean I pulled a real boner. Believe it or not, I went to the Coop and bought a whole mess of cards. I bought them for relatives, lovers, friends, foes and fiends alike, then I filled them all out and the envelopes too (making up zip codes randomly as usual). Then the phone rang. When I came back I sealed the envelopes and, ignoring my roommate's urgent pleas to wait, I dashed out to mail my Valentines...
Terming the Schweiker choice "the political boner of the century," Harry Dent, the President's chief delegate hunter in the South, argued: "Reagan people are supposed to be purists, but this is a very impure act." Reagan's embracing of Schweiker, declared Illinois Congressman Henry Hyde, was like "a farmer selling his last cow to buy a milking machine...
...Americans, led by Henry Fonda, are more rumpled and informal, but equally blessed with manly virtue. This evenhandedness, this unwillingness to question the military skills of anyone involved, of course, further vitiates the drama. Surely in this historical event someone somewhere made a really dumb boner, surely someone got hysterical, or at least lost his nerve...
...With supervisors filling in for striking staffers, United Press International last week was tricked into a textbook journalistic boner. Finding a press release on Senator Edward Kennedy's letterhead in the U.P.I. Senate press-gallery box, Marty Houseman, normally U.P.I.'s bureau manager in Puerto Rico, rapped out a story based on the release's startling contents: Kennedy had told a visiting group of high school students that he was reconsidering his noncommittal stance on the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 1976. As word of the U.P.I, "exclusive" spread, Kennedy and his office staff were besieged...