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...notorious. Rising from an impoverished boyhood in Louisiana's woods, Beebe had built, by the early 1980s, a $150 million financial empire that stretched across the Sunbelt. But the brash, stocky financier was actually a ringleader in a network of good ole boys who helped ruin more than a dozen savings institutions by handing out as much as $10 billion in reckless loans -- some of which ended up in Beebe's own pocket. Recalls Beebe's son Ken, who worked for him: "Dad would make a deal with the devil if it looked good...
...Soviets have launched some three dozen nuclear satellites over the past two decades. Altogether they contain almost 3,500 lbs. of radioactive fuel. The only way to halt that proliferation would be to make space nukes an issue in U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks. Warns Brown: "If we don't stop the use of nuclear-power sources traveling over our heads, we're likely to wake up one day with a nuclear reactor landing on our heads...
BLACK AND BLUE. Three great singers, two dozen top dancers, 28 bluesy numbers and a zillion sequins add up to Broadway's hot new musical revue...
Right now, all these are among the half a dozen or so eating concepts being tested in pilot restaurants around the country in the hope that they will grow up to be the new-age McDonald's, Bob's Big Boys or Howard Johnsons. Such national restaurant chains are made, not born. Dreamed up by corporate entrepreneurs, they are produced by high-priced, savvy market researchers, advertising gurus, graphic designers and architects -- as well as by food consultants who cook up portion-controlled, idiot-proof recipes to feed the projected image. Owing more to McLuhan than to Escoffier, their packages...
Another simple task is deciding where to eat. Conch is the Bahaman specialty dish, and you can have it prepared every way imaginable. It's tasty the first dozen-or-so times you try it, but it gets kind of gross after that. All of the restaurants in the Bahamas are lousy, so you'll probably wind up eating at Kentucky Fried Chicken all the time. If you do, remember that "breast" means "scrappy piece of cartilage and bone" in the Bahamas. Try the word "kiel" instead...