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C17H21NO4. A derivative of Erythroxylon coca. Otherwise known as cocaine, coke, C, snow, blow, toot, leaf, flake, freeze, happy dust, nose candy, Peruvian, lady, white girl. A vegetable alkaloid derived from leaves of the coca plant. Origin: eastern slopes of the Andes mountains. Availability: Anywhere, U.S.A. Cost: $2,200 per oz., five times the price of gold...
...double-breasted, eggshell blue, worsted herringbone suit; the candy-striped, English-cuffed, high-necked Herbert Hoover shirt; the custom-made blue suede monk strap loafers. It is hard for Journalist Tom Wolfe, 50, (The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby; The Right Stuff) to keep his identity under his hat, especially when it is a hand-blocked and brushed blue felt bowler like the one he is sporting in front of the studiously garish former Huntington Hartford Gallery of Modern Art on Manhattan's Columbus Circle. The Wolfe in chic clothing, having savaged much of the modern art world...
...ankle. There was some concern if he could make the switch from second base to center field but, ironically, he hurt himself running the bases...One observer who knew Mickey Hatcher in the minors is surprised at how much attention the Twins outfielder is getting as a flake. "He was cool as a cucumber in the minors because all he wanted was a big league job. He didn't do anything unusual." ...Now that Vancouver manager Ed Nottle is in the news again for skippering his team after being ejected by wearing the costume of the local mascot, a conversation...
Entering the new year at full strength and with high hopes for an upset victory, the Crimson went the stale corn flake route at McHugh Forum last night, reaching high into the nether regions of ineptitude to come up with a 6-2 loss to Boston College...
Though only about 1% of the Taj's surface has been affected, the damage is already distressingly obvious. Marble that was once a bright white is now streaked with pitting that gives it a yellowish cast. Some red sandstone of adjoining buildings has actually begun to flake. The chief culprits are believed to be coal dust and sulfur dioxide fumes; these help create sulfuric acid that attacks the calcium carbonate of the marble. Most of the pollution comes from two coal-fired power plants, a large railroad switching yard and myriad small coal-burning foundries. Still more pollution...