Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anti-labor-racketeering section that was set up in the department under Bobby. Katzenbach feels that antitrust work has been too scattershot in the past, hopes to sharpen the focus of trustbusting onto areas that have "the most important impact on the economy." And one of Katzenbach's pet projects will certainly get fresh attention: the need for better legal aid for the poor. The department's new Office of Criminal Justice is studying the questions of bail, proper counsel and pretrial publicity as they affect indigents...
...Chicago, a day laborer walked into a pet shop and walked out with a black bear. A store in suburban Seattle is advertising a special on baby elephants (two for $9,998 and one free). A terrified Boston girl bought a five-foot indigo snake as a wedding gift for her fiance. Hunter Nick Del Duca, in Canyon City, Colo., has orders for six Colorado mountain lion cubs at $150 apiece, and can sell as many more as he can catch...
...over the U.S., pet lovers are buying what the trade calls "exotics." Rover, Tabby and Budgie are as popular as ever, but they are being crowded by Huggy the boa constrictor, Beaky the vulture, Stinger the scorpion and many other creepy, crawly, slinky, slithery creatures that once belonged in zoos...
Party Stopper. "When I first got in this business ten years ago," says Pet Shop Owner Gene Herman of Evergreen, Ore., "if you sold a monkey a month and a talking myna bird once in a while, it was way out. Now you've got to be able to provide everything from a python to a piranha on a day's notice." Squirrel monkeys, owl monkeys, woolly monkeys and others have become so popular that they are hardly classified as exotic any more. Among other species in demand are such far-out fauna as anteaters (they prefer bananas...
...good a student of Capitol Hill, as well, to trust any kind of legislative majority by itself. He knows that Jefferson had more than 3-to-l majorities in his Ninth Congress (1805-07), yet was not able to get the money in time for one of his pet projects-buying Florida. In the 41st Congress, Ulysses S. Grant had a 56-to-11 majority in the Senate, yet could not get his own party to support his desire to annex Santo Domingo. And Franklin Roosevelt's overwhelmingly Democratic 75th Congress (1937-38) turned on the President and killed...