Word: pies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Waiting for Otto. She punctuates all her narratives, like Mort Sahl, by saying "Right?" On television, she became "the chiffon-light Jell-O pudding and pie-filling girl," toured New York State as Jenny the Genesee Beer Girl for $250 a week, and "that was more money than I thought God had. Right?" While going to classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse, she worked as a waitress nights until 4 a.m. "I have a lot of guts," she says, splitting a subtle hair, "but not a lot of courage; and courage is where the money...
...automated devices, from closed-circuit TV to dial systems that will order a central computer to dish up information or solve knotty math problems. Already some new buildings are being designed entirely around machines. At the University of Miami's new University College, shaped like an octagonal pie with lecture halls surrounding a television studio at the core, a single professor can now talk from TV screens to as many as 3,600 students a day-more than most professors face in 10 years of live teaching...
...that Martin and his colleagues unwisely tightened money before the last recession. Attacking the system's penchant for secrecy, such Democrats as Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire complain that trying to find out why and how the Federal Reserve makes its decisions is like "trying to paste a custard pie on a wall." To make the Federal Reserve more dependent upon the President and upon Congress' easy-money advocates, Patman is sponsoring bills that would: >End its authority to set itsown budget (currently: $180 million a year) and oblige it to come to Congress for an annual appropriation. - Empower...
Senator Smith announced for the Presidency late. She began her campaign only three days ago, shaking hands in 29-below weather in the northernmost counties of the state. She doesn't even like to talk politics: the 66-year-old Senator prefers to chatter about pie and the weather with the voters she runs across. But with every hands she shakes, deep in what Rockefeiler has conceded to be heavily Goldwater territory, where she has been campaigning, Senator Smith chips away at the Arizonian's margin...
...fertilizer. Tentative steps into Pharmaceuticals with pepsin from hog stomachs have led to a line of non-meat products that includes tranquilizers and cosmetics. Excursions into soapmaking to utilize fatty acids produced Dial soap, got Armour so interested in the grocery end that it now even makes pizza pie. Diversified Armour has been reorganized into seven divisions...