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Player also became a health food devotee, subsisting on fruits and nuts before such a diet was in vogue. At the 1966 U.S. Open the press corps checked into its hotel and was greeted with a complementary bunch of bananas from Player and the Chiquita company...
They are named Phantom Flasher, Lazarus, The Red Onion, Chiquita Vanana, Vandal and such. They ride high and graceless, as always, but now their boxy bodies cry out for attention with garish designs and obstreperous Pap art: frontier scenes, Hawaii schlock, seascapes, erotic mush. Even one-the specimen, say, that flashes nude girls in and out of view with Op-artful magic-can pop the eyeballs. When large numbers heave into sight, zooming along the road in a spaced-out phantasmagoria of a caravan, they can set the innocent motorist to gaping and muttering, "What is going on here...
...other four schools were left in a wake of peels as Malone and partner romped to an easy triumph. How did they imaginatively use the banana? Your guess is almost as good as mine, but as Malone stated last night while munching on a Chiquita, "I've only got a year and a quarter left of school excuses. If I ever did anything like that after college, they'd arrest...
...acting career began with a stint as TV's Chiquita Banana lady. The next time Barbara Carrera is seen peeling anything, however, it will be the clothes off her back in a new sci-fi epic titled Embryo. "I had a lot of qualms about it," she says of her nude scene with Co-Star Rock Hudson, a physician-researcher who cultivates Barbara from birth, so to speak, in his basement laboratory. In her role, the Nicaraguan-born actress grows quickly into the good doctor's lovemate, then a dope addict and finally a 120-year...
...Competition Department of the European Economic Community fined the company $1.2 million for "an abuse of dominant position" in the banana market* and ordered an immediate 15% price rollback in five of the nine EEC countries. Key findings: United Brands priced unfairly by charging twice as much for Chiquita bananas in rich markets such as West Germany as in less prosperous ones, notably Ireland. Penalty for-noncompliance with the order: an additional fine...