Word: butter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interests of promoting the welfare of labor, Meany has stuck to bread-and-butter issues and scoffed at the more grandiose schemes of some of his colleagues. His unabashed materialism and anti-Communism have won him many enemies on the left within the Democratic Party; Meany is so antiCommunist, in fact, that he refuses to smoke Havana cigars. Indeed, it looked for a few months last year as if Meany might lead a contingent of labor into the waiting arms of Richard Nixon. Meany and the executive council of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. had been staunchly supporting the President's policies...
Died. Horace McMahon, 64, bullnecked, gravel-voiced character actor who was long one of Hollywood's favorite heavies; in Norwalk, Conn. After several years as a bit player and a starring role on Broadway, McMahon went West and was soon typecast as a mobster-a bread-and-butter persona that he relished in many of his 135 films. "I was a jailbird," he said, "behind bars so often that Western Costume Company had a 'Horace McMahon' tag sewn into a convict's striped suit." In 1949 he exchanged his prison number for a badge number, returning...
...named it Ra, for the sun-god-cultural coincidence!-of Egypt, Easter Island and Polynesia. The Ra was loaded with over a ton of fresh water in authentic Egyptian jars and almost twice that weight in food. Menu samples: sheep cheese in olive oil and sello (ground almonds, honey, butter, flour and dates). Coops enclosed live chickens and a duck named Sinbad. There was also a pet monkey named Safi. With Heyerdahl sailed an oddly assorted crew of six: a Russian doctor, an Italian mountain climber, a Mexican anthropologist, an Egyptian judo champion, and Abdullah, a desert dweller from Chad...
...specific things was chewing doors. The teaching method? Simple: "We smeared the doorjambs with peanut butter." Another task: to nibble on people. Di Sesso's son, 18, spent a good part of three months lying down in a large box, his body covered with peanut butter, while baby rats ate their fill. "We kept adding more and more rats until finally we had 200 crawling over him," says Di Sesso. Young Di Sesso admits to having been a bit frightened at first, but by the end "I was laughing out loud." Reason? They tickled...
...Butter and Cheese. Conceivably, the negotiations could have broken down right there. Speculation is that Schumann telephoned Pompidou for instructions and from Paris came the word to work out a compromise. The result was a deal that New Zealand Prime Minister Sir Keith Holyoake immediately accepted. His country will be allowed to export 80% of its present butter sales of 170,000 tons annually to the Common Market for five years, after which the concession will come up for review. Britain can then lobby for an extension. But New Zealand's cheese sales will be phased out during...