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...locals." And the doped-up duo's antics reach outrageous limits. They terrorize the strip in the Great Red Shark; they successfully infiltrate a National District Attorneys' Drug Conference; burn two hotels by charging exorbitant amounts on phony credit cards, intimidate room service girls into loading their room with grapefruit and 600 bars of Neutrogena soap; trace down directions to the American Dream to a grassy plot of land where a sleazy nightclub once stood; and encounter such characters as Savage Lucy, Lacerda the menacing Portuguese photographer, and the Vincent Black Shadow...

Author: By Martha Stewart, | Title: Doomservice | 7/10/1973 | See Source »

...impeachment with honor," "bail to the Chief," and "Nixon has a staff infection." "In the twelve years I've been at the Shoreham," says Russell, "I've never had anything like the past two months. The audiences love the whole spy thing, like McGovern picked up a grapefruit and heard a dial tone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Watergate Wit | 6/25/1973 | See Source »

...Royal Dutch/Shell; American Overseas Petroleum Ltd., owned by Texaco and Standard of California; and Occidental Petroleum. Negotiations between Oasis and the Libyans over the 50% demand had been proceeding fitfully for months until last week. Then Gaddafi called a Tripoli press conference and produced a couple of Israeli grapefruit that he said had been confiscated by Libyan workers at a pipeline terminal run by Oasis, the largest foreign producer. He accused Oasis of allowing Israeli spies to operate in Libya disguised as oil workers. Gaddafi gave the companies less than a week to submit plans for allowing a 100% takeover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Libya's 100-Percenter | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...likely to tax Presidential Chef Henry Haller's Swiss culinary education. Daughter Tricia Nixon Cox is fond of a fowl dish that is glopped up with two cans of cream of chicken soup, and the First Family's "Continental salad" is dominated by canned beets, canned grapefruit juice and a package of JellO. Other main courses recently served to the nation's highest-paid ($200,000 a year plus $50,000 expense money and free lodging and transportation) public servant: beef roulades, tamales, chicken egg rolls, roast pork and lasagna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Mmm, Mmm Good! | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...GRAPEFRUIT DIET Consists of little more than eggs, bacon and grapefruit (which is supposed to dissolve body fat) and allows dieters to eat as much of these foods as they wish. Those who follow this diet supposedly lose up to ten pounds a week, but not because of any fat-fighting properties on the part of grapefruit. Most of the people who try this diet get so tired of the limited selection of foods that they simply cut down on their eating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Perils of Eating, American Style | 12/18/1972 | See Source »

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