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...view, Graham several years ago began writing to Nobel laureates, asking for sperm donations. Five said yes, and Graham made collections in the San Francisco and San Diego areas for his subterranean sperm bank-the Hermann J. Muller Repository for Germinal Choice-built on his ten-acre estate in Escondido, Calif...
These days Beatty continues to pursue his three obsessions ?movies, politics and women?in about equal measure. His base for the past dozen years has been his apartment high in the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. The suite, aptly named "El Escondido" (The Hideaway), is a mess. Half-eaten room-service sandwiches, old magazines, scripts, books and political journals lie in heaps throughout the living room: the place looks more like the office of the editor of a liberal weekly than the salon of a movie star. Beatty, who likes to wear old jeans and open shirts, slips...
...neighboring areas on Sunday, the Miami Herald now has seven different editions throughout south Florida, the Detroit News has a computerized printing plant in the suburbs for speedier distribution, and the Chicago Tribune last year invested in suburban growth in, of all places, San Diego -by buying nearby Escondido's Times-Advocate (circ. 31,000). The Los Angeles Times itself has been producing a separate edition for neighboring Orange County for a decade...
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...Golden Door, a chic fat farm in Escondido, Calif., Chef Michel Stroot wondered what he would do now to sweeten the evening's dessert for his chubby clientele. At a Weight Watchers clinic in Manhattan, Michael Fiorentino, 38, a veteran dieter, vowed that he would travel to Europe, if necessary, to replenish his supply. At offices of the American Diabetes Association, telephones rang almost continuously as anxious callers sought advice. In Brooklyn, the Cumberland Packing Corp. suspended production of its product, Sweet 'n Low, then resumed it to meet suddenly booming demand. On the New York Stock Exchange...