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...runs Farm Stay UK, a nonprofit body that publishes a directory of farms that take guests. Dairyland Farm World, a farm-turned-theme-park in southwestern England, has gone down the diversification route. For an entry fee of $40 per family, Dairyland offers a milking parlor and a "pat-a-pet" area...
Once the goods hit the U.S., there's little deterrent. "In narcotics, they get 20 years to life," says Pat Stella, U.S. customs assistant special agent in charge of New York City. "But a guy caught on Canal Street in the morning is back on the street by the afternoon." Customs officials have been working to increase the penalties, tacking on other charges like money laundering, which can increase a sentence to 10 to 20 years...
Betty Ford's cancer diagnosis in 1974 prompted a TIME cover story on POLITICAL WIVES, which featured Pat Nixon and Joan Kennedy, along with the brand-new First Lady...
Some women, to be sure, would be unhappy no matter what their husbands' occupations and would turn in their despair to drink, to drugs, to affairs. But probably no other career makes such relentless demands on wives and families as politics. Witness Pat Nixon in virtual exile at San Clemente. "We are worried about Pat," an associate of the Nixons confides. "She has not been in touch with any of her close friends. It's not like her"... [The political wife] becomes public property, an extension of the public man, subject to unending scrutiny, judgments, accolades and criticisms...
...When it comes to politics, I am slightly to the left of Canada,” Lehane said. “But on one issue, I am to the right of Pat Buchanan. That’s child predators. I think if you’re caught once—life. Chances are, when you’re caught for the first time, you’ve probably already molested six other kids...