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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ball-size chunks of fresh lamb barbecue (at $3.50 a plate), they watch as skilled artisans turn piles of fleece into yarn with Rumpelstiltskin-like skill. After hours spent looking over the thickset Dorsets and Suffolks, fine-haired Merinos, goatish Barbado black bellies and exotic Karakuls on display, people whose only past experience with sheep also involved mint jelly begin to make knowing comments about various breeds...
...price tag of the 25th birthday party it threw at its Washington headquarters two weeks ago. The department celebrated with a two-day bash for 8,000 of its employees and beneficiaries that included outdoor concerts, a chicken barbecue and performances by Sesame Street's Big Bird, whose creation was funded by HEW. The price of the whole thing was $15,000-no small sum; yet, based on an eight-hour working day, the cost amounted only to about what HEW disburses every second...
...abrasive and bumptious, often irritating Capitol Hill Pooh-Bahs, and some White House aides, whose help he needs most. Yet a smile usually plays at the edges of his mouth, and his deep laughter is disarming. If he lacks compassion for his overworked aides, cursing their failures, they at least know he pushes himself even harder. And only a few cynical civil servants claim that his passion for publicity shows that a desire for self-promotion overrides his genuine concern for society's vulnerable children, the aged and the handicapped, whom his department is pledged to help...
...Secretary has a solid relationship at the White House with Stu Eizenstat, domestic affairs adviser, whose start in Government was also on L.B.J.'s staff. Eizenstat is the White House aide most often involved in HEW's activities. Says he: "We both have similar philosophies and goals. It is impossible not to like Joe. He is a fighter for the things he believes in." Even Peter Bourne, Carter's top adviser on health matters, who has had some clashes with Califano, concedes: "The White House staff has sort of a love-hate relationship with him. He can drive...
...have women around and it diffuses the pressure. My freshman year, Straus people weren't inhibited from running naked through the halls during a water fight. The Straus Rape and Pillage Society, a group made up of Straus freshmen who are notorious for 'boisterous activities,' is a group whose very nature is contrary to code living," says Duffy...