Word: pork
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Along with farm subsidies, shipbuilding subsidies and harbor projects, another well-intentioned federal-aid program can be added to the long list of those that have degenerated into pork-barrel giveaways. It is the black-lung program, which is financed by the U.S. taxpayer. Designed to compensate the families of coal miners, dead or alive, who were victims of the debilitating coal-dust disease, the program has become a much-abused boondoggle...
...handsome 16th century house of Cotswold stone and primrose hue in Great Somerford, Wiltshire, about 80 miles west of London. Mark's grandfather was an equerry to King George VI. His father, Peter Phillips, is a director of T. Wall & Sons, a large produce firm that specializes in pork sausages and ice cream (and which, incidentally, is an official purveyor to the Queen). Mark attended Marlborough College, one of Britain's best public (meaning private) schools, before entering the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Though he was an all-round athlete at school, his favorite sport is the same...
...Chen's China. Now that President Nioxn has lowered the watergate on China visiting, everyone and his cousin is touring the Middle Kingdom with camera crew in tow to record every delightful moment of the trip. If Cambridge restauranteur Joyce Chen's home movies are as good as her pork lo mein, this Boston special promises to better the average. Included are obligatory visits to the Great Wall, Canton, and Shanghai plus interesting side trips to Chen's family home and the resort town of Hangchow Harvard's own John Kenneth Galbraith cameos as himself. CH.2. 8 p.m. Color...
Fattening the Pork...
...began to slip in some places, though it is still too soon to tell if the housewives will ultimately succeed. In Chicago, wholesale beef and hog prices dropped a few cents per Ib.; Grand Union Co., the tenth-largest food chain in the U.S., cut the price of beef, pork, lamb and veal by 100 per Ib., and a few other chains also made reductions. Some 200 leaders of the New Majority -housewives, labor-union officials and consumer-group representatives-prepared to go to Washington this week to lay plans for a continued boycott or some other strategy-like urging...