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...Fewer pork sausages...
...fever can strike anyone, anywhere. Betty Talmadge, ex-wife of Georgia's former Senator Herman Talmadge-and author of an excellent cookbook, How to Cook a Pig-has been acquiring porcine memorabilia for seven years. Chicago's Charles Braverman, a commodities trader in pork bellies, owns, among other items, a $2,000 brass pig dinner bell, a $2,400 pig ashtray and a 100-lb. lead pig, which adorns the front of his house. David Mercer, 36, a former lawyer who started Boston's Hog Wild! in 1978, mails the Hogalog catalogue advertising his "Pork Avenue Collection...
Howard Baker seems the perfect Government representative. But when the cuts concern his pork-barrel projects, like the Clinch River breeder reactor, he is not asking as much of himself as he does of other Senators. Baker may be a shepherd in party matters, but he is a wolf when legislation threatens Tennessee...
...team stormed Detroit's Frederick and Herrud pork-processing plant, hauling off 33 workers. There, the bad feelings that greeted the agents everywhere across the U.S. took a comic twist when two gun-toting INS men rushed through a door into a holding area only to be charged by a herd of angry hogs. The terrified officers escaped by swinging across the rafters, Tarzan-style. None of the 33 arrested were illegal aliens...
Baker's weaknesses as a national leader are in some ways outgrowths of his strengths. His affection for pork-barrel projects for the folks back home seems particularly inappropriate for someone trying to shepherd a budget-cutting revolution through Congress. The most egre gious example is the Clinch River breeder reactor, a costly ($3.2 billion) boondoggle that both Jimmy Carter and, initially, Ronald Reagan tried to scuttle. Baker was "in every direction" trying to win votes for this pet project, says Senator Lugar. Baker, a former member of the old Atomic Energy Committee, says he truly believes in breeder...