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...more baffling problem has been how to sustain the squirrels that frisk and frolic on the capitol lawn in Sacramento. For years, Assemblyman Eu gene Chappie has been feeding the squirrels with samples provided by the Northern California Walnut Growers Association. Daunted by Proposition Nine, Chappie thought at first that he would have to find some walnuts grown on state land to keep the squirrels from becoming a vanishing breed. But then Assemblyman Edwin L. Z'berg won 50 Ibs. of walnuts in a raffle, which he promptly gave to Chappie. Now other assemblymen are anteing up a buck...
...Erytreans For Liberty in America all have the same color skins, a mixture arrived at by melting a bar of Suchard's milk chocolate in a pint of walnut finish. They're all males, all under 5'10", all have arabic features, and all sport little black moustaches. They speak a foreign tongue...
...Anderson attacked Postal Service expenditures for Klassen's first-class offices in Washington's L'Enfant Plaza Building. More than $300,000 was spent to decorate the tenth-floor executive suite, charges Anderson, including $5,280 for a private pantry, $3,671 for two sets of walnut doors, and $5,999 on draperies. The $528,360 spent furbishing the Postal Board of Governors' penthouse one floor above includes a $50,000 kitchen with $53 sugar bowls and $59 cream pitchers. Moreover, fumes Anderson, Klassen has negotiated a contract with the Board of Governors which guarantees...
...that the committee's initial round of closed-door sessions is completed, it can be seen that at least part of the problem these past seven weeks was the committee's leisurely, three-day-a-week schedule. Members straggled into their seats on the two-tiered walnut dais in Room 2141 of the Rayburn House Office Building, many often late for sessions that began at 9:30 a.m. and usually ended by 5:15 p.m. They had to recess for every quorum and roll call on the House floor, and also broke for 1¾-hr. lunches...
Doctors first became aware of the problem when Lee Strom, 60, a cook in a Walnut Creek, Calif., restaurant, was admitted to the University of California Medical Center with what Dr. Curt Ries diagnosed as agranulocytosis. The condition, characterized by the body's inability to produce white blood cells, had left Strom weak and feverish and with so severe an infection in his rectal area that doctors were forced to perform a colostomy, bypassing his lower bowel...