Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flinty old John Diefenbaker, 71, likes to parry any suggestion that he should step down as leader of Canada's Progressive Conservative Party with a Churchillian thrust: "I'm not going till the pub closes." Last week, as the party gathered in Ottawa's Chateau Laurier for its regular convention, Tory dissidents were trying their best to close...
Once in a long time she gets stymied. Her suckling-pig program is a famous example. First she explained the extraordinary preparations she had gone through: cleaning its ears and nostrils, shaving its snout, even brushing its teeth. Each step, using three pigs with two in reserve, went smoothly. Then came the time to carve. Using an electric knife-"It certainly sounds like a dentist, doesn't it?"-all went well until she reached the rlbs. They would not yield. She attacked with a huge chef's knife. Still no luck. Finally she put down the knife, rested...
Cooking dominates their life, with Julia endlessly perfecting recipes and Paul acting as the cookbook's official photographer, recording each step in Julia's preparation for sketches to illustrate future chapters. "The thing about food," says Julia, "is you're a much happier person if you eat well and treasure your meals." No purist, she thinks nothing of belting down a couple of stiff bourbons at home just before Paul serves a superb Grands Echezeaux from his 350-bottle wine cellar. She keeps tubs of Marlboros on the kitchen table, gaily dips into them for a smoke...
Perhaps this Lampoon will go down as the one that began the format revolution. Rumor has it that the newly-introduced Table-of-Contents, which brings the contributors off of the musty mast-head, is only the first step in Lampoon president Walker Lewis' drive to reform the layout. McClelland is digging up new type-faces so that the 'Poon can send the stupifying Bodoni back to the Congressional Record. The new look includes photographs, and the full-page ones in this issue are of Harvard's beautiful people." They must have been taken either by W. Laney Thornton...
...chagrined that their decisions must involve so much guesswork. Says Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin: "If the defense supplemental is going to be, as many think, between $7 billion and $15 billion, we should take the calculated risk of a one-year tax increase rather than risk another step on the accelerator. It's easier to remove the tax increase than to untangle the impact of an inflationary situation...