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...than new columns." She also digs a working woman's elbow into dippy socialites and celebrity puritans like Diet Doctor Nathan Pritikin, whom she took to a Dallas taco joint. While he showed her how to eat healthily even there, she thought ravenously of "guilty nachos." Discovering Orlando, Fla., Schwartz announced, "Forget singles bars, forget computer matchmaking, forget gourmet dating clubs. If you want to meet a man, head straight for Disney World . . . I was there last week-and so were half of the divorced fathers in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: And on Other Home Fronts | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

Manhattan cabbies sometimes stop for the hailing figure on Park Avenue, but he never gets in. Patrons new to Kathy Gallagher's, a chic Los Angeles eatery, request tables far from the cigar chomper who seems to be a fixture in the place. In Boca Raton, Fla., vacationers have called police because a youth has loitered too long staring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Garden-Variety Archetypes | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...prize: more than $2 million in annual installments of $113,000 for 20 years. Costello's first purchases were two "double-wide" mobile homes (cost: $30,000 each furnished), one to replace the Maine shack and the other to be used as a vacation trailer in Leesburg, Fla. For his "lady friend," he bought a new Buick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Lightning Strikes | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

During ten days in September 1976, David Leroy Washington went on a bone-chilling crime spree across Dade County, Fla., that included torture, kidnaping and three murders. After turning himself in, Washington insisted on confessing to all three murders and pleaded guilty. His lawyer, William Tunkey, opposed the guilty pleas. But then, at the special sentence hearing required in capital cases, Tunkey offered no character witnesses, introduced no expert psychiatric evidence and requested no presentence report that might have been used to mitigate the punishment. Washington was condemned to death, and later appealed, arguing that his Sixth Amendment right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Guidelines from the Supreme Court | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

ARRESTED. David Dorr, 30, and Peter Marchant, 24, former bellhops at the Brazilian Court Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla.; for conspiracy to sell cocaine and for selling the drug to the late David Kennedy; in Barnstable, Mass., and Warwick, R.I. Dorr, a Cape Cod resident, and Marchant, a Rhode Island native, face a maximum penalty of 20 years imprisonment and a $15,000 fine for both charges. On the day of the arrest, Palm Beach officials announced that Kennedy, 28, son of the late Senator Robert Kennedy, had died after "multiple ingestion of cocaine, Demerol and a prescription sedative called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 28, 1984 | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

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