Word: eating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party celebrating the 90th birthday of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. When his wife Pat gave the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt two jars of Iranian caviar, Nixon indiscreetly confided that it was a gift "from the Shah to Pat and from Pat to you." Advised by the President to "eat it with a spoon," the irrepressible Mrs. Longworth replied: "I'll wallow in it"-an allusion to Nixon's celebrated comment: "Let others wallow in Watergate." Asked later about the party, Nixon's Watergate resentments surfaced in an attack on the press...
...must travel. Thus no two magazines will be affected in precisely the same way, but all that use the mails are hurting. Says National Review Publisher William Rusher: "Journals of opinion traditionally lose money. The National Review is a journal of opinion, so the postal rates won't eat into our profits-they will simply swell our deficits. It's a very serious problem...
...film brought back from Skylab 3, the astronauts were kept in semi-quarantine; their contacts were limited to wives and selected NASA officials, as doctors tried to shield them from infections that would interfere with the medical tests. For 21 days the astronauts must also continue to eat Skylab-type prepackaged food, a teetotaling, less-than-gourmet diet that was particularly hard on Commander Carr; in space he dreamt continually of savoring his favorite cold beer while watching football on TV. The astronauts took the restrictions in stride. As they reported for their medical examinations at the Johnson Space Center...
...challenge," he says. "Do I have the stamina and ability? Can I stand the punishment? These questions can't be answered until I try. After all, it's my ticket to do what I want for the rest of my life." Then he grins. "Got to eat too, you know. The way the cost of living is going up, it might take a million to keep me in vegetables...
...limit is imposed this year, von Stade said, he will either set a quota on the number of interhouse people who could eat in the Union or establish certain "offbeat periods" set aside for them to eat there...