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Probably the most implacable of the antismokers' groups is S.H.A.M.E.! (Society to Humiliate, Aggravate, Mortify and Embarrass Smokers...
...backdown on forecasts of disaster may embarrass the Administration, which has been using the threat of drastic shortages as the main argument for a bill to decontrol prices of newly drilled natural gas rapidly and permanently. Last week the FPC granted rate increases that by July will raise the price of "old" gas in production before 1973 by 6?, to 29½? per 1,000 cu. ft. "New" gas from recently developed wells is going up 1?, to 52? per 1,000 cu. ft. But the Administration contends that these rises are insufficient to spur production of natural gas, which...
...have time for that foolishness!" But Hoover kept sending unsolicited "personal and confidential" memos to the Truman White House on political matters, such as the claim that a Communist sympathizer was helping a certain Senator write a speech, that a sugar scandal might break and embarrass Democratic officials, that Newsweek was planning a foreign espionage story. There was no evidence that Truman was interested...
...cleaning up, Captain Jeff Weigand played Amherst student George McGovern. It wasn't enough that Amherst provided the South Dakotan Senator with Tom Eagleton the only vice-presidential candidate forced off a ticket in history, now they torture him by giving his namesake a squash racket and watching him embarrass himself in public...
RESTIC: Carried away, now that's putting it mildly. Not only did you thoroughly embarrass your host, me, but you ruined the party for all of the other guests, and they paid a good deal more than you for the privilege of attending...