Word: butters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lagging so far behind Khrushchev's ambitious targets that it "seriously threatens" the entire seven-year plan. Russians are in no danger of starvation and in fact are better fed than in Stalin's day. But production of grain, sugar beets, vegetables and butter has remained level, and the cities are plagued by recurrent shortages of meat and milk. The explanation is simple. Said Khrushchev: "The fact is that we just don't have enough...
...vast investment needed for his farm program could come only from the Soviet defense budget. However, most Soviet experts agree that Khrushchev cannot afford to gamble with national security or alienate the army, which reportedly is already suspicious of his faith in peaceful coexistence. Khrushchev is inextricably committed to butter as well as guns, sirloin as well as sputniks. He has long since staked his political survival on raising Russian living standards, and last week even declared approvingly that Marxism-Leninism, like U.S. capitalism, will eventually lead to the "affluent" society.* Diehard Stalinists, notably China's leaders, deplore Khrushchev...
...raised the temperature from a chilly 50° to an uncomfortable 83°, speeded up the air blower to lower the temperature to 76°. Some of the men began to lose weight on a 1,500 calorie daily diet (two meals, consisting mainly of coffee, soup and peanut butter on wheat crackers), but when the ration was increased to 2,000 calories, many lost their appetite. The sailors talked mainly of girls and real food-and in the last few days mostly about food. Though only the two dozen men assigned to step through air locks into a tunnel...
...four years, Rockefeller has managed the notable feat of paying state expenses from current income while reducing past debt. One reason the legislators were anxious for a bread-and-butter issue that would win votes in the November election was that Rocky had discontinued the state's 10% personal-income-tax rebate-and thus, in effect, raised taxes-to help balance his record $2.6 billion budget for 1962-63. By placing fiscal responsibility over political expediency, he chagrined both veterans and legislators, but he also reaped himself a political bonus for political and fiscal responsibility...
Unsolicited Help. Now 54, Lazar was born in Stamford, Conn., the son of a German Jewish immigrant who ran a thriving butter and eggs business. Later, the family moved to Brooklyn, and Swifty took his LL.B at Brooklyn Law School. Sophie Tucker was one of his early legal clients, and he got into agenting when a nightclub impresario mentioned that he needed a Hawaiian musician. Swifty remembered one but could not recall the fellow's name. "I can get you Johnny Pineapple," he said recklessly. Then he tracked the Hawaiian down, told him his new name was Johnny Pineapple...