Word: marylander
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bring all these new people into its ranks, however, the G.O.P. is going to have to modify its country club image. Joe Six-Pack does not belong to a country club. Maryland's Republican Congressman Robert Bauman expresses a widespread aversion to the venerable upper crust that has long controlled party affairs: "They are elitists. They are out of touch with the supermarket counters. Their view of Communism is that it is a market to be sold to, not a system that may destroy their children's freedom...
...first rejected by huge margins in both houses. So when Carter carried out his threatened veto, the House did not even debate it. It immediately voted to override the President's veto by an embarrassing 335 to 34. From Republican Strategist Robert E. Bauman of Maryland came a victorious yell: "Yahoo!" Next day the Senate completed the Carter rout, voting against...
...give you a campaign contribution, but I need your help in getting some work," Agnew remembers his friend as saying. "I will recommend you and do what I can to help you, but I have no control over awarding work," Agnew remembers replaying. "He seemed satisfied," the ex-Maryland governor remembers, "and arrangements were made for him to send a check." Directly contrary to the prosecutors' allegations, Agnew did not receive cash--he got the $2500 in a check. And see here, the money was not for services rendered--Agnew, a firm believer in Truth in Advertising, told his friend...
...invented seven years ago at Penn State, but it takes a while to get an undercover fad going. Only this year did a campus divertissement known as the "tuck-in" spread to the University of Maryland, where a group of male students calling themselves Pillow Talk Inc. offered chaste bedtime tuck-ins to any classmate in the women's dorm with 99?. That price included the company of one Teddy bear for the night, a final kiss on the cheek from one of a trio of males, two of them in three-piece suits. Best...
Pillow Talk members boast of administering at least 100 tuck-ins in the past term alone and attribute their success to the "father image" they convey. Maryland women began offering their own service, but with more personnel and at less cost-25? per tuck-in. Asked their ad in the campus paper: "When was the last time you had five girls tuck you into bed?" William L. Thomas, Maryland's vice chancellor for student affairs, endorses the trend. "It's a very gentle custom," he says. When the women heard Thomas wistfully admit he had never been tucked...