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...Another bowl of grits won't kill anyone," said Ron White, assistant commissioner of the Texas department of agriculture. Maybe so, but how about another slice of birthday cake? Unsure, state health officials in Florida swept grocery-store shelves of some shipments of Betty Crocker cake mixes, Gold Medal flour, Dixie Lily corn grits and Martha White's hush puppies, among other goodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Muffin-Mix Scare | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...said a smiling taxi driver, "is the invasion we've been waiting for." The island will greet an even more significant invader with open arms this week: U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who will be the guest of honor at the celebration of Grenada's tenth birthday as an independent nation. Shultz may find, however, that the islanders are at present more interested in dependence. According to an informal poll conducted by Professor William Adams of George Washington University, three out of every four Grenadians would like their country to become part of the U.S. Some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping the Welcome Mat Out | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...assumed, and believe he assumed, that he would try for a second term. He might have changed his mind, they think, only if he had seemed sure to be defeated or if his health had failed, and nothing of the sort happened. The President, who will celebrate his 73rd birthday next Monday, gives every appearance of being in better physical condition now than he was on Inauguration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: There He Goes Again: Reagan Will Run | 2/6/1984 | See Source »

Nightline, which since last April has been the only hourlong news show on any commercial network, will be cut back to half an hour on Feb. 8, coincidentally Koppel's 44th birthday. At the hour length, ratings sagged. Says Koppel: "We were on a downward spiral." Often the show gave a topic too much time, or jumbled together unrelated segments, some of them less than urgently newsworthy. Admits Executive Producer William Lord: "By thinking larger, we diluted the focus of the show." The biggest roadblocks, however, were local ABC affiliates. When the show expanded, twelve stations dropped it outright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: As Hot as He Is Cool | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...smooth-as-silk charm are as timeless as a well-tailored tuxedo. His last movie, Walk, Don't Run, was released in 1966, but Cary Grant, who turned 80 last week, has never lost his Hollywood gloss-or his penchant for privacy. In an effort to keep his birthday "as low key as possible," the actor, born in England as Archie Leach, celebrated by staying home with his wife Barbara, 33, while calls and presents poured in from well-wishers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 30, 1984 | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

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