Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tearoom in Blackwell, Okla. For the cover, Sue spent 19 days interviewing food experts in Manhattan, sampling all the while. One day she was forced to eat three chefs-delight lunches within five hours. Editor Cranston Jones-ate and edited-but stayed out of the kitchen. He was content in the knowledge that his wife has had lessons at Paris' Cordon Bleu...
...cooking was a bust. As a girl she was a tomboy in a well-to-do Pasadena, Calif., family of six-footers (both her sister and brother, like Julia, top 6 ft., making their mother modest in her boast: "I have produced 18 feet of children"). Julia was content to eat what the family cook served, learned her mothers complete cooking repertory: baking-powder biscuits and Welsh rabbit, and little else. The one time she tried to cook pancakes for breakfast, she recalls, "it took about an hour. It was a real mess...
...news media will not be content unless they are stirring up race controversy. I voted for Edward Brooke not because he is a Negro but because I felt he was more his own man than Peabody. I tried to use an open mind on this, and I am a Southerner...
...ministration of outgoing Governor Scranton. Indeed, Pennsylvania voters' reaffirmation was vigorous enough to regain Republican control of both houses of the legislature by a hair. In Maryland, even though Republican Ted Agnew came from behind to defeat Segregationist George Mahoney in the gubernatorial campaign, voters also seemed content with the status quo, re-electing Democrats to all other statewide offices and keeping the state legislature lopsidedly Democratic...
...suffered a heart attack and was told by doctors that he would never play again. Though he has had three seizures since, he still keeps pounding away. "I've got to," he exclaims. "What am I going to do? Sit around the house and bite my nails?" Not content to be just the highest-paid ($1,500 a week) sideman in music, he left Harry James's band in March "to put music back in its perspective, to offer something else than just twang, twang, twang." His new band, he says, has nothing to do with nostalgia...