Word: borax
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boss, "Martinez," has five divers working for him. He cuts the coke by 50% with borax, a cheap powder that adds a lot of weight but nothing else to the once pure coke. At each stage of dealing, the coke will be cut with substances such as procaine, lactose or?for an extra buzz ?amphetamines. When finally consumed, it may be no more than 10% pure. Martinez deals only with people he knows well. It is up to these additional middlemen, who know the right artists and hairdressers and doormen, to push it further toward the users...
...discos are strobe light-years removed from the borax boîtes of the '60s-most of which died a well-deserved death. In place of the tacky, bare-wall closets wired for din, push and crush, the best new places project sensuality, exclusivity and luxury. And they are booming: there are some 15,000 discos in the U.S. today, v. 3,000 only two years ago. Many of the night places are for members only, with fees and dues ranging as high as $1,000 a year. Many have good-and expensive-restaurants and such added recreational lures...
...surface? Why it's so bad that despite the gallant efforts of the zamboni man, who circled the arena enough times prior to the opening face-off to make a grown man nauseous, the ice still remained the color of clothes that aren't washed with Borax--in front of one net, there was a shotput circle, to the right of the other, the landing area for a long jump...
...that Reagan is an announced candidate, said a spokesman, TV stations might have to give Ford equal time if they broadcast any of Reagan's 50-odd films, or even reruns of Death Valley Days, on which he was a narrator and occasional pitchman for 20 Mule Team Borax...