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Though the exact cause of the blaze remained to be determined, investigators decided that it started in the kitchen of the ground-floor delicatessen. James Kalb was across the street when the conflagration broke out. "I heard this great big explosion toward the front end of the casino," he said. "Then I saw this big mass of flame, about 100 feet in diameter." Pandemonium surged through the casino, which stayed open 24 hours a day, as the flames roared up through the catwalk called the "eye in the sky," used by the management to monitor gambling. The early-morning patrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: It Was Death, Absolute Death | 12/1/1980 | See Source »

...against a demand that exceeds 1,300 a day. Business is up 122% over last year. Morande talks bemusedly of visiting a retail stove store in Portland, Ore., where ten salesmen, gracing 1,000 sq. ft. of floor space, "actually were handing consumers numbers, just like in a delicatessen, to wait in line for a stove." Some economists dismiss such sales as "life-style purchases, made to express social attitudes." Believers go right on cutting, scrounging and burning wood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cooling of America | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...talk on national issues. They were given the impression that their guest would be Pollster Caddell. Caddell did call on the Fishers to inform them that the President himself would be there in an hour; he handed Bette Fisher $100 to buy refreshments. She rushed to a delicatessen about ten miles away and bought mounds of cold cuts and cole slaw, but Carter and Rosalynn, who accompanied him on both trips, declined to eat anything; they settled for lemonade. Ginny Porterfield had prepared coffee and sweet rolls for the visitor from Washington and friends and neighbors, including two doctors, some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carter at the Crossroads | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...third set Curley pulled to a 5-0 lead and it looked like he was going to have another delicatessen breakfast, but the Big Green took four games in a row before Curley could lox up the match...

Author: By Nell Scovell, | Title: Dartmouth Netmen Have Energy Crisis While Crimson Powers to a 6-3 Win | 4/25/1979 | See Source »

...lunchtime crowd of about 30 people at Elsie's Delicatessen and Lunch on Mt. Auburn St. calmly ate their food on the sidewalk after a bomb threat on Friday forced the evacuation of the restaurant...

Author: By Alan Cooperman, | Title: Elsie's Evacuated By Bomb Scare; Patrons Lunch on Mt. Auburn Street | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

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