Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magnuson's effectiveness comes from his off-chamber work as chairman of the Senate's Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee, senior Democrat on the Appropriations Committee, and member of many subcommittees. All this he calls "kitchen work." Says Maggie: "The hard part is the kitchen work. These Liberals, as they call themselves, they aren't the real Liberals. They get nothing done. They want to be out on the front porch talking while the rest of us are back doing the kitchen work. Well, I'll tell you where to look if you want to find...
...result of his kitchen work, Magnuson can and does point with pride to the Bonneville Power Administration, the Hanford Atomic Project, a $9,000,000 federal appropriation for Seattle's 1962 World's Fair, as well as to a healthy share of Government contracts for Seattle's Boeing plant, for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Sand Point Naval Air Station. He speaks of the vast Columbia River Basin reclamation project as though he had built it himself-"This year I put up the Glen Canyon transmission lines." In his tribute last week, former Senator John...
...down her house. Her $200,000 manse survived unharmed, as did the nearby rented quarters of the Richard M. Nixons. But at the height of the fire the former Vice President, not taking any chances, first evacuated the manuscript of his memoirs and a taped account of his Moscow "kitchen debate" with Khrushchev, later hustled back with Wife Pat to retrieve some personal possessions. Sighed Nixon after the event: "I have seen trouble all over the world, but nothing like this...
Lady Bird's major overhaul for the house was aimed at the kitchen, to which she has added a double-oven electric range, two food freezers and a restaurant-size refrigerator. She has plans to make other minor improvements as she goes along. "If there is a clash between function and style, function will win." says Lady Bird. "I want it to be gracious enough, but it would be out of keeping to expect us to do something really very elegant." Accordingly, there is a brand-new. $15,000 swimming pool in the backyard. And Mrs. Johnson...
...Kitchen. British Playwright Arnold Wesker's socialist shocker clatters, boils and roars its way through a day in the help's half of a big London restaurant. As dialectic it may be flimsy, but as theater it is a feast...