Word: outfitting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...white-coated figure poking fingers, drills or needles into the patient's mouth, with possibly a palliative lollipop or pat on the back afterward, forget it. Dr. Schmidt practices his profession in a red cape and bright blue tights. He calls himself "Plaque Invader." The cape outfit is only one of twelve costumes he dons to amuse young patients. At Christmas he may be dressed as Santa Claus, and around July 4 as Uncle Sam. Schmidt drives to and from work in a vehicle that he calls a "Plaquemobile," a white Volkswagen topped by a king-size Styrofoam molar...
...boasts revenues of $300 million a year from such varied sources as sales of International Harvester construction equipment and the distribution of Campbell's soups and other foods. An Olayan-controlled insurance firm, the first in Saudi Arabia, earned $101 million in brokerage fees last year; another Olayan outfit owns or controls 35 companies engaged variously in farming chickens, desalinating water and building Riyadh's new $4 billion airport...
...closest things to Klein's heart, though, is his radio program, The Robert Klein Hour. Twenty-six shows aired last year, syndicated nationwide by the FM outfit responsible for The King Biscuit Flower Hour. Top name rockers like the Who, Fleetwood Mac and Carly Simon came on and talked with Klein (and also played their records), as well as non-music folks like Rodney Dangerfield (yet again), Robin Williams and Jane Fonda (who didn't play her record). This year, Klein's own production company has taken over the show, with a resultant change of advertisers...
...Pearl River. Of course, no body is found, but Doc, who owns the net, pronounces himself pleased with the expedition: "I've never been on a better river-dragging, or seen better behavior. If it took catching catfish to move the Rock of Gibraltar, I believe this outfit could move...
MASTER SERGEANT Joe Henderson is proud of his outfit, the 801st Junior Rear Officer Training Corps at Minuteman Technical High School in Lexington. "They get some grand opportunities--why, some of them last week got to go up in a C-135 and refuel jets. Mr. Hicks, you got to go up, didn...