Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is more than a touch of schizophrenia in America's midyear mood. The nation remains well disposed toward Jimmy Carter, yet lacks confidence in his ability to handle the uncertain economy. Americans complain that the Government is not doing enough to whip inflation, yet want the Government to quit meddling so much in their lives. They want Carter to do something, yet doubt that any one individual-even a President-can solve the nation's problems...
Nonetheless, every politician capable of reading a map knew that the redistricting would inevitably be bloody. Given the thankless task of drawing new electoral districts. Majority Whip George Keverian realized that he could not possibly please all 194 fellow Democrats in the house, at least 53 of whom were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank...
...Apparently unbothered by such strategic complications, Mengistu is planning an all-out assault on Eritrea, led by a people's militia of 200,000 peasants equipped with cast-off American arms and trained-if that is the word -by a small cadre of Cuban advisers. They hope to whip enough "volunteers" into fighting trim to begin marching north in June before the onset of the rainy season. Griggs reports that long convoys are rolling through Addis Ababa carrying young recruits to a fetid training camp named Siga Meda, or "field of meat," west of the capital. It was formerly...
...Byrd has strongly endorsed Carter's plan, but he must deal with the worries of some of the staunchest Democrats. Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy, for example, fears that the President's proposals may slip new "loopholes" for business into the tax code. Byrd's own majority whip, Alan Cranston, represents California, the largest gas-guzzling state in the Union, and Cranston has already expressed doubts about the standby gasoline...
...culinary turncoat. In her first new public broadcasting series since 1972, she will concentrate on, of all things, American cuisine. Says Julia, 64: "It's time we branched out and did something different." In the 13-installment program, which she will begin shooting in September, Julia will whip up entire meals instead of single dishes, aiming also to "get out of the kindergarten. We don't want to show how to chop onions. This will be sort of an advanced thing for people who like to cook." Some possibilities for Julia's new menu: New England boiled...