Word: cooke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President stuffed some dog biscuits into his pockets. As plain folks know, the new master of a golden retriever should pass out the rewards and feed the dog for a few weeks. The President is going to have crummy pockets for a while, and when the White House cook gives Ford his English muffins in the morning, Ford is going to give Liberty his bowl of chow...
...triple play was set up by Republican U.S. Attorney James R. ("Big Jim") Thompson, 38. Earlier, he obtained convictions against former Governor Otto Kerner, Cook County Clerk Edward Barrett and five other alder men. But "this time," said Thompson, "the system was on trial." Daley, 72, who had a mild stroke last May, is considering running for a sixth term next year...
...interested only in "modest" purchases of a million tons or so, the White House was startled to learn early this month that between 5 million and 10 million tons of grain might soon be heading to the U.S.S.R. Ford promptly called in executives of the Continental Grain Co. and Cook Industries and persuaded them to hold back on their contracts to sell the Soviets a total of 3.4 million tons. Some of that grain ultimately may be shipped to Russia. Last week Treasury Secretary William Simon went to Moscow to discuss the matter...
...Cook Industries President Edward Cook said he was told at the White House that halting the grain deal was a "political" gesture and "that if we didn't cancel the sale, Congress would impose [mandatory export] controls." The grain sale was held back on the eve of the Administration's economic proposals, and Ford was clearly not eager to have the inflationary specter of a large grain export dangling before the public-and the Democrats. The Republicans and the nation are still smarting from the "great grain robbery" of 1972, when the Soviets secretly bought up some...
...soon learns that his "new" world of padded shoulders and Hudson Hornets is divided into the locals - those who are actually living and working on the film in 1948 - and the visitors - those like himself who were mysteriously dumped there. There are scores of visitors, including a Philadel phia cook named Whittaker Kaiser, who is a merciless lampoon of Norman Mailer at his most masculine pugnacious. Richard Nixon even puts in a brief appearance, wanting to know if there is an extradition treaty between 1948 and the future...