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...scientists discovering that it was the green layer observed on Mars. In grocery stores, on commuter trains and over back fences throughout the South, East and Midwest, it was a gripping topic of conversation. Subject of all the excitement: Digitaria sanguinalis, better known to the frustrated suburban lawnkeeper as crab grass. In 1959 the wiry, octopus-like weed and its pesky cousins have had a vintage year-and so have the gardening and seed companies that help the homeowner in his never-ending battle against...
Douglas overwhelms him with irrelevant information, tempts him with a scrumptious Maryland crab salad, sends him tooting off on a tour of the farm with an oversexed daughter (Debbie Reynolds) who reclines invitingly in the first patch of tall grass she can find. By the time Tony gets back to the farmhouse, two of Debbie's grade-schoolboy brothers have helpfully removed the engine from his car-they are giving him, they announce, a free "ring job." At about this point, poor Tony is driven to drink (something called a Laughing Hyena: one part vermouth, two parts gin, three...
...While we were straining for victory, just close to the finish, a girl in the other boat lost her footing. I mean, her feet slipped out of her stirrups, or whatever you call those things, and she caught a crab. We won, just because of that...
...Philippe of the Waldorf lacked as a greeter and as a symbol of the leisurely, intimate dinner, he more than compensated for in his mastery of the art of big-time wining and dining-and of educating thousands of barbarian palates to the delights of Rock Cornish game hen, crab meat Louis and cream of pumpkin soup. Any conclave of hungry and thirsty humans was his meat. "I won Goodyear Tire & Rubber over to pink champagne," he once boasted to a companion. Unexcelled at spreading a gourmet's table, even for the American Trucking Associations, he delighted in explaining...
...piece band, Angelita steamed into Los Angeles harbor, sideswiped a dock and stove in a lifeboat. Registered as a naval vessel, it dodged $18.25 a day in dock fees, though the only visible armament was a line-throwing gun. Caterers began loading on such supplies as champagne and cracked crab, and the master came aboard-but in bad temper from all the publicity. "Zsa Zsa Gabor is not giving a party on my boat," Ramfis snapped. "We will entertain." an aide explained, "but the general will be the host...