Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RECIPE sounds like a sure-fire concoction for comic relief: take on pudgy post-pubescent with an effeminate face and a flair for tight-fitting French jeans and outmoded platform shoes; garnish with a sissy's voice and a drag queen's propensities. Serve in a Toronto beauty salon. Now take one long-haired schizo on the lam from the local loony bin, throw in a few touches of outward normalcy--a good eye for fashionable apparel, decidedly hetero leanings, and a good old-fashioned motherly instinct--and dash with an urge to write whacked-out tales for her beloved...
Carter's relief plan is being accepted by farmers-if only because it offers a safety net. Instinctively, many farmers prefer the vagaries of the free market to even a hint of intervention by Big Government: in this case, however, most recognize that they have come close to being overwhelmed. Ed Burds, 44, owner of a 373-acre spread near Peosta, Iowa, says of the Administration plan: "I don't like it, but that's what we'll have to do. We'd sooner go all out and produce, but we can't when...
...continue to be a public person, unfortunately, except that I don't go to the office, and I don't have the same sort of feeling of responsibility. I had looked forward to not being Prime Minister, but I didn't realize I would feel this relief, as if a stone had been removed. I don't have any [political] plans, none at all. I can't have an anticipation of the future, because I just don't know what the government's going to do. When you're doing something, there...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Dolores Hrabosky, 27; from Al Hrabosky, 28, St. Louis Cardinal ace relief pitcher, nicknamed the "Mad Hungarian" because of his unsettling mannerisms on the mound; after seven years of marriage; in Clayton, Mo. Says Hrabosky, who admits to practicing psy-war on batters: "If my mother was up at the plate, I'd hit her. I'm not the nice guy everyone makes...
...well-to-do while millions of workers and their families are living hand to mouth." In many cases, workers are not living "hand to mouth" at all, but starving outright. At least 13 per cent of the labor force is unemployed, and 200,000 people are on relief, receiving a monthly income...