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...Louis Martini Mt. Zinfandel...
...Attempting to change a society through a mere change of words as discussed in your Essay on "Sispeak" [Oct. 23] affects that society about to the extent that pasting a gin label on a bottle of milk makes the contents eligible for martini construction. Words are not things; words are only words...
...begun to get the scent, not of victory to be sure, but of some improvement. Small contributions were coming in at a brisk rate through the mails. There was something in the air that caused a middle-class homeowner in Burbank, a jar of olives in hand for his martini, not to close the door in the face of the earnest, shaggy McGovern canvassers but to wish them well. In Chicago's 47th ward, a housewife accepted a bumper sticker from a McGovernite. "I'm only a step ahead of poverty," she said. "The middle class gets nothing...
...would close $22 billion dollars worth of tax loopholes which now exist. In his rhetoric, McGovern also tries to portray himself as a friend of the little man. In speech after speech McGovern says that "there is no reason why a Wall Street banker can deduct his $20 martini luncheon and the average working guy in this country can't deduct the cost of his bologna sandwich...
...business. While worker salaries are in "a deep freeze," he claimed in Dallas, the president of Dow Chemical Co. received a pay raise of 196% and has to "eke out an existence on $305,000 a year." He inveighed against tax loopholes for the rich. "You pay for every martini lunch that a businessman deducts-while you eat a bologna sandwich." (Later, travelers on his campaign plane ceremoniously presented McGovern with a martini-which he declined-and a single bologna sandwich...