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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legged, up-to-3-in.-wide crustaceans are being marketed nationwide by The Great American Crab Co., Inc. of Orlando, Fla., which boasts it will sell some 750,000 in its first year. They will eat peanut butter and jelly, dog food, cereal, lettuce or fruit, though GAC would naturally prefer to have crab fanciers feed them its "special dinner mix" at $2 per 3-oz. shaker. Many owners buy fancy shells to serve as crab pads, coral trees for them to play in and, of course, leashes. Though they have less personality than, say, dolphins, fond owners aver that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Feeling Crabby? | 9/12/1977 | See Source »

...veteran Foreign Service officer recalls that in Saigon discontented "dependent wives" sympathized with the V.C. "They talked about 'our struggle' as if there was some connection between the guerrillas shelling Nhatrang and a lot of old hens in the embassy compound refusing to make peanut-butter sandwiches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Swan Song | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

Jody Powell always maintained that one of Jimmy Carter's problems was his tendency to base his decisions solely on logic. Back in the Georgia statehouse, Carter used to wonder why it was necessary to butter somebody up to get him to do what the facts showed he should do. Carter did very little buttering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sizing Up the Movers and Shakers | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

Confronted a few days ago with opposition to the new Panama Canal Treaty, Carter explained his position in terms of cold logic, as usual-but almost instinctively, he also reached out for the butter dish. When Ambassador Sol Linowitz called Carter from Panama City to report that an agreement would be reached within hours, one of Carter's first requests was that Linowitz phone the news to Jerry Ford up in Vail. At least three times Carter personally talked to Ford on the phone, then sent Linowitz, General George Brown, and former Ford Aide Brent Scowcroft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Sizing Up the Movers and Shakers | 8/29/1977 | See Source »

...button: "It showed Uncle Sam, and when you pulled the string. Uncle Sam pulled Hitler up on a tree limb and hanged him. The slogan was LET'S ALL PULL TOGETHER." A woman asks, "Do you remember punching oleo up in a bag to make it look like butter?" Restaurants posted a sign: USE LITTLE SUGAR AND STIR LIKE HELL. WE DON'T MIND THE NOISE. Radio stations did not give weather forecasts, lest they help the enemy launch an attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: W. W. II: Up Front and Back Home | 8/1/1977 | See Source »

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