Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AGRICULTURE. To achieve higher farmer incomes, lower consumer prices and lower governmental costs, the platform promises continuation of present policies, with commodity programs designed to strengthen farm income; expansion of food stamp, school-lunch and other surplus-food programs, along with research into new uses for farm products; community programs and agricultural cooperatives "to assure rural America decent housing, economic security, and full partnership in the building of the great society." The corresponding G.O.P. plank stressed a hands-off policy by the Fed eral Government, promised farmers the "maximum opportunity to exercise their own management decisions," while resisting imposition...
...appalled Midwesterner: "This is the original Bay of Pigs." Beds collapsed, bathtubs belched black water, telephone service (and every other kind) seemed to have been suspended for the duration. At one point, Adlai Stevenson tottered out of an elevator at the Traymore toting six bottles (no bellboys) for a lunch he was giving (no waiters). Said Adlai sadly: "I never thought one city could get things so bitched...
...smart, ribbon-tied boxes that look as if they held tiaras rather than T-bones. At The Colony, which trills each lunchtime with some of the most expensive giggles in the world, guests' pooches eat on the house-dogs in the men's room, bitches retire to lunch in the powder room. But The Colony's management is delighted to send shut-ins Mommy's unfinished capon en geéle avec sauce niçoise...
...automakers, astonished at the mushrooming market for $3,000-and-up vacation vehicles, surveyed the field and found that most camper trucks are used all year round. Many owners find them ideal for football games: they play cards and drink on the way to the stadium, fix a hot lunch in the parking lot, snooze on the way home. Others use them to eliminate hotel bills on skiing trips; and they make a useful base for a day at the beach with the kids. Nonowners also benefit from camper trucks: today's thoughtful house guest can bring...
...times bigger than France, but still they are repeatedly disappointed to learn that a morning is not enough to visit the Grand Canyon from Denver or that a horseback ride across Arizona would be no fun at all. The insular English are forever making appointments for lunch in Boston to be followed by dinner in Phoenix and then wondering what all the rush is about...