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...toughest challenge came last August: she had to mollify the many elements within the Justicialist movement who had only reluctantly acquiesced in her nomination. At first they had rea son to regret their choice. In her initial campaign appearances, she often looked as if she had been laminated in plastic immediately after leaving her coiffeur...
...Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center or, worse still, Edward Durrell Stone's monstrous box of upholstered Mussolini at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. But that is not saying a great deal. The design, with its pleats of white birch, hanging plastic doughnuts and faired-in lights, is weirdly Art Deco: it could be the set for a lavish Buck Rogers movie from the '30s-"Desist, Zorka, or you will destroy the Intergalactic Confederacy...
...ward at building 25, almost all of the forty-five residents spend each of their waking hours sitting in plastic chairs lined up against the walls. In order to keep the children seated the attendants administer beatings whenever a child gets up to walk around and the nurses administer sedatives three times a day. In extreme cases, that is to say when a child is especially determined to walk around, the attendants won't hesitate to tie a resident to his chair with shoelaces or bedsheets. All too often the children are forced to remain in their seats even after...
...Lornie Kuhle. He is also on a vitamin-based, high-protein diet planned for him by a Los Angeles nutritionist before the Court match. The program calls for Riggs to take approximately 450 pills a day: 100 black pellets of soybean-wheat germ concentrate, 75 liver-extract pills, 75 plastic phials of pure powdered protein, smaller quantities of vitamins E, C, Bl, B2, B complex, one vitamin A pill and several calcium pills...
...proximately a quarter of a million dollars, and is expected to be much more this year. Last week, starting a 32-city tour, she drew a sellout crowd of 10,000 in Columbia, Md., most of whom, by the end of the show, were standing on everything from plastic Spring-O-Lators to rhinestone-studded roller skates to pay her tribute. A few days later, at the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville, Ill., another sell out audience of 4,500 stamped and roared for nearly three hours for Miss M and her group, the Harlettes...