Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honesty." Cheers and applause were thunderous. Even better: the $100-a-plate dinner netted nearly $400,000 for the Goldwater campaign treasury. > Governor Rockefeller returned to New York from his California swing-and probably wished that he had stayed away longer. The state assembly in Albany turned down a pet Rockefeller plan to provide $165 million in new state funds for public housing. What made the defeat even more chilling was the fact that Rocky's own Republican majority in the assembly ganged up to vote 63-16 against him. > Governor William Scranton rammed through the state assembly...
Back in 1956, when Nikita Khrushchev's risky gamble on the Virgin Lands seemed to be paying off, the Soviet ruler gleefully gibed at Western predictions that his pet scheme for plowing up 100 million acres of marginal land in Siberia and Kazakhstan could never solve Russia's chronic food shortage. "He laughs best who laughs last," chuckled Khrushchev. "So let us laugh at how these sorry forecasters have miscalculated...
...these gunslingers, the "sport" is more than mere extermination. One U.S. clothing manufacturer placed an order for $140,000 worth of kangaroo skins to make ski clothes; the animal's meat is sold as a delicacy in Japan, can be found as pet food in Sydney shops at 23? a can. Some consider this a waste. "In kangaroos," says Basil J. Marlow, curator of mammals at the Australian museum in Sydney, "you have a valuable source of protein. Instead of being shoved into bloody dogs and cats, it could be more profitably shoved into humans. Kangaroo meat is quite...
Last week 6,000 experts and officials from all over Russia gathered in the Kremlin for a week-long Communist Party Central Committee meeting on farm problems. As speaker after speaker reviewed the results of Khrushchev's pet panaceas, Nikita listened somberly to a dismal catalogue of failures...
Plastered Pulse. Among Rorimer's special kicks is encountering in the lobby a life-size plaster cast of one of the Met's curators, Henry Geldzahler, made by Sculptor George Segal. For the Sculls, the plastered Henry (top picture, opposite page) has become a household pet. Scull likes to feel Henry's pulse. "How pale you look," he murmurs. Scull's three boys chat with Henry and use him as a talisman of good luck for exams at school...