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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main producing countries, Peru, Bolivia and Colombia. Inspectors at Miami International Airport found a near- record shipment of 3,227 lbs. of cocaine in January aboard a cargo jet owned by Avianca, the Colombian national airline. Agents discovered the drug when they opened 55-gal. barrels of passion fruit in syrup and found football- shaped containers of coke bobbing in the mixture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buried By a Tropical Snowstorm | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

Hazards of the Midas touch is a theme common to both books. Lenzner's The Great Getty is more detailed and better organized and written than Russell Miller's The House of Getty, which contains such cliches as "fruit of his loins" and repeatedly uses the bush-league redundancy "consensus of opinion." Both authors have a good handle on Getty's complex business holdings and the right touch when dealing with the old man's harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hazards of the Midas Touch the Great Getty by Robert Lenzne | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...that anyone has much time for foliage. Verbonich and his wife Linda spend most of the weekend contemplating fruit: the cherries, oranges, plums and lemons, plus elusive sevens, spinning behind the windows of their slot machines. Linda's hands work absently at the change bucket. She feeds the machine, lifts herself off the stool a bit to grasp the handle, and settles back with her weight on it, like a factory worker heaving open a start-up lever of a large turbine engine. Then, with the lights reflecting in her eyeglasses, she bounces up and down, patting the side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Las Vegas: Hibbing on a Hot Streak | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

France has also stopped importing New Zealand's canned kiwi fruit, and scattered reports suggest that fish, canned fruits and vegetables may be next on a growing list. So far, French officials have refused to make any comment on the embargoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Zealand: Stewing Over Banned Brains | 3/17/1986 | See Source »

...matter what students think of the innovations, there are more to come. Executive Dietician Dale M. Hennessey says more new items will be added after spring break, with chicken tostadas and fresh fruit plates replacing beef stew...

Author: By Amy N. Ripich, | Title: Coucous Innovations | 3/5/1986 | See Source »

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