Word: snakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...RONALD REAGAN is a slithering reptile with rhetoric, Carter is a Snake Oil vendor. Last Saturday night at a Democratic Forum he sold himself like medicine that would cure a hundred diseases. And he would've named them if he could have--because Carter likes to fill time and his listeners' ears with long catalogues of problems, kinds of people, possible solutions, more kinds of people, another problem, another catalogue of the American character, etc. "We've got a good country," he says, mountains, fields, streams, valleys, you name it. "And we have a good system of government. Nixon, Watergate...
...fall of 1974, NBC decided to replace its timeworn symbols, the rainbow-plumed peacock and the cursive cluster of letters known affectionately as "the snake." The network retained Lippincott & Margulies, a Manhattan firm specializing in corporate facelifts. After 14 months, at a cost estimated to be as high as $750,000, L. & M. produced an abstract N composed of two trapezoids, one red, one blue. NBC is now emblazoning the N on cameras, microphones, stationery, packaging, uniforms, and office walls. Probable total cost: another couple of million...
Though isolated from medical centers and their special equipment and expertise, they must provide a variety of services-from obstetrics to treating snake bites. Still, they must cope with all of medicine's red tape: keeping records, collecting fees, filling out endless forms...
...guard off balance and then pulls him aside. Greene is an expert at all four techniques. "When Joe stomps you, it's not infuriating," says Steeler Center Ray Mansfield, who faces him in practice. "It's more like frightening. Did you ever see a dog get hold of a snake...
Swarms of sand fleas, mosquitoes and flies infest the area. There are also scorpions and several varieties of poisonous snakes, including a viper that is only eight inches long but extremely toxic. To avoid snake bite, Israeli soldiers in the Sinai have been ordered to wear boots rather than sandals, which in turn has led to a virtual epidemic of athlete's foot...