Word: washingtonians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gloats the slick monthly Washingtonian in a promotional brochure: "In most major cities, you see street vendors selling hot dogs, peanuts or ice cream. In Washington there is a pushcart vendor selling quiche Lorraine, páté, hummus and fine cheeses. But that's the way it is in Washington?expensive tastes and the money to afford them...
SEAMY SEX IS OUT, TRUE LOVE IS IN, declares the February cover of the District of Columbia's regional monthly, the Washingtonian. One of the authorities for this, er, turn of affairs in the nation's capital is the issue's cover girl, Elizabeth Ray, once famous as former Congressman Wayne Hays' nubile secretary who couldn't type. Says she in the accompanying story: "I see a lot of changes since I worked in Washington. Now the men I go out with care about the little things-flowers, smiles, just being nice...
Ruth Darmstadter, a former Nader staffer writing in the Washingtonian, charges that "the popular image of a band of 60 to 70 dedicated idealists working in happy concert with Nader is, quite simply, a fiction. When you couple Nader's incompetence as an administrator with the importance of employees remaining in his favor, you have the formula for a poisoned atmosphere." One dramatic expression of that atmosphere was the mysterious, nighttime removal of a personal diary from the office of Ted Jacobs, a high-level Nader associate, who says he was then fired by Nader for "misconduct...
Patch added that the drug is being tested at McClain Hospital and the Washingtonian Center, both in Boston, but under different control conditions. Patch would be the first to use the drug on former inmates...
...Says Washingtonian Guy Farmer, a frequent adviser to management negotiators: "We simply have a more peaceful labor scene." The standout reason is that paychecks are finally keeping ahead of inflation. In the years just before 1972, ever-fatter wage settlements negotiated by unions were all but canceled by increases in the cost of living, keeping the actual buying power of U.S. workers just about level and breeding bitter discontent in the factory. By contrast, real earnings have inched ahead about 3.2% in the past four quarters (see story, page 53). In effect, a drop in the inflation rate has made...