Word: meats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under the hot Arizona sun, the two bitter enemies circled each other like battling scorpions, stingers at the ready. Jabbed Representative John Conlan: "We are both conservatives, but our style is different. He uses a meat ax and I use a scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin...
...feels that Reagan got as far as he did largely because "he is a good speaker, he comes across well on TV -after all, that was his trade. Reagan is an attractive and appealing man-I like him. Jerry Ford is not fluff; he knows the real meat-and-potatoes part." Betty is critical of Nancy's opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment. "I just think that when Nancy met Ronnie, that was it as far as her own life was concerned. She just fell apart at the seams...
...restricted purchases of sugar, a basic and highly prized commodity, to two kilos (4.4 lbs.) per person per month at the legal price of 50? per kilo. (Extra amounts can be bought at 2½ times that price.) He also announced that rationing may soon be extended to meat, for which he has already proposed a 30% price increase...
...camp area? The disease detectives had to find not a microbe but a man. In an epidemic of food poisoning by salmonella in Sioux City, Iowa, it was not the microbe but its means for spreading infection that had to be tracked down. The culprit was a machine-a meat slicer...
...lavish dinner parties, costing up to $500, at the Carriage House, a Georgetown restaurant. The only informing that took place at the blowouts was done by the agents themselves-no actual informants ever attended. Recalling one of the dinners, an agent told TIME: "It started with cocktails and crab meat, then there were oysters, followed by steak and wine and French pastries and brandy. When I got home, I was woozy. My doctor believed that I was having a heart attack and put me in the hospital. But I was only overstuffed." Government investigators consider the payments to have been...