Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Duke 86, Maryland...
Obeying a court order to return kickback money he had accepted for lucrative state contracts while Governor of Maryland, former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew, 64, paid up last week. The check was made out to the state for $268,482 (the $142,500 he pocketed plus interest). Said the ex-Veep, now a foreign trade consultant, from his luxurious desert home in Rancho Mirage, Calif.: "This just doesn't seem to add up to the kind of justice the framers of the Constitution had in mind...
...been much denounced as a wasteful, Mussolini-style marble barn. Now that it is essentially completed and ready for occupancy, some Senators have declined to move into it. Wisconsin's William Proxmire and others object that it is too opulent. John Stennis of Mississippi and Charles Mathias of Maryland say they prefer the old-shoe comforts and fireplaces of their present quarters. With most of the Senate leadership setting a good example, however, the marble barn's 50 office suites have all been assigned. Says Majority Leader Howard Baker, the first to move in: "I approved the design...
...governments do come and go. More to the point, even if they do not go, they can stop payments, whatever the cost-most likely no more access to the world's credit markets. In the mid-1800s, when the U.S. was a developing nation, four American states (Pennsylvania, Maryland, Louisiana and Mississippi) defaulted on British loans. Though three subsequently paid up, Mississippi is still listed in London as a bad debtor; it owes $5 million for a bond issue, excluding interest. More recently, whole countries have repudiated their foreign loans, among them have been Cuba in 1961 and North...
...growing number of women writers are making the message familiar. In nine books in twelve years, Anne Tyler, 41, has populated an imaginary Maryland town with characters as memorable as those of Faulkner country. The hero of Morgan's Passing is a loud, daffy, unfathomable presence, as unexplainable as an Ahab. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, her most recent novel, uses an eatery as a metaphor for family life, in which food is the stuff of history, and patrons are constantly eating and running away. The wife of an Iranian child psychiatrist who is also a novelist, Tyler still...