Word: plum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plum pudding, blazing in brandy...
...students of bureaucracy and hot-shot Democrats out to get hands-on experience at making public policy, the Plum Book is a mother lode of informative tidbits and dicey job prospects...
...only does the Plum Book list the positions up for grabs, but it includes the current desk-occupiers and the salaries that they will soon be missing...
...State Henry A. Kissinger '50 and Secretary of Commerce Elliot A. Richardson '43--who weigh in at $66,000 per year--to Olga C. Cumberland, the Private Secretary to the Director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs ($15,000 to $20,000 range of level G.S. 10) the Plum Book has them...
...some chance the President-elect himself begins browsing through the Plum Book, he may allow himself a smile of irony. Just inside the title page is a list of the members of the committee that published the book, and its vice-chairman is none other than Rep. Morris K. Udall (D-Ariz.). Even on his own committee, it seems he finished second this year...