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...together on energy policy, but it is barely a flicker. Democrats contend that Ford's strategy of raising prices is the wrong way to force oil conservation, but they cannot agree on any approach of their own. A bill that the White House described as a "marshmallow" finally squeaked through the House Ways and Means Committee before the recess. It would, among other things, raise the federal tax on gasoline from its present 4? to 7? next January, tax business use of petroleum, and levy a tax on gas-gulping cars. The Democrats did not bring that bill...
Bobby Riggs demolished Margaret Smith Court yesterday with an assortment of lobs, drop shots, chops and marshmallow drives. Riggs started the day by handing Court a bouquet of red roses to "soften her up," and finished things off by challenging other women players, especially Billie Jean King. Riggs's original challenge--designed to prove the superiority of male tennis players--was directed to King...
...crowd of 1291 witnessed a complete offensive and defensive breakdown by coach Jim Calhoun's team. Harvard broke from a 4-4 tie to a 20-7 lead as the pitiful Dogs turned into marshmallow puppies incapable of handling the soup in "Gravy Train...
...President liked to call O'Donnell into his office and say: "Tell Bobby why you think that idea of his is terrible." O'Do nell knew Bobby (on Harvard's 1948 football team) before he knew Jack. Described as "incredibly naive," "actually as soft as a marshmallow," "not a simple man but many different simple men," Bobby clearly was O'Donnell's favorite Kennedy. Dave Powers knew one side of Jack Kennedy: the man off duty, on shore leave from Father, Harvard and public office. But nobody, the memoirists concede, really knew Jack Kennedy except...
RAMSEY CLARK. "A left-leaning marshmallow" whose defense of the Rev. Philip Berrigan exemplifies "what is wrong with the Democratic Party today...