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...help retard viral growth. Some avoid eating chocolate, nuts and other foods containing arginine, another amino acid that some specialists think encourages viruses. Other patients apply seaweed, earwax, snake venom, peanut butter, watermelon, ether, baking soda, bleach, yogurt compresses, carburetor fluid or Instant Ocean, an aquarium product that they lace into their bath water. None of these home remedies is a cure, but sufferers keep experimenting. Says Dr. John Grossman of Washington, D.C.: "Everything from the full moon to poultices has met with failure. If enough people have the problem, ultimately someone will relate it to whether it rained last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Snake Venom and Earwax | 8/2/1982 | See Source »

...which military officers allegedly pared down enemy troop estimates to stay be low a ceiling of 300,000. But Westmoreland's remarks were directed to an entirely different meeting that took place in Saigon. For his part, the general has claimed that he was sandbagged by Wal lace and Crile, that he was not informed in detail about what he would be asked until he arrived in New York City for an interview, and that, unprepared, he was confronted by Wallace, the beneficiary of months of staff research, about events dating back some 15 years. When Westmoreland later sent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Autopsy on a CBS Expose | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...with women are invariably brutal. Thy Brother's Wife (contrary to Greeley's mock self-review) is in fact a better, more hopeful book. The pace is quicker, the characters more firmly drawn, the sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal of Honor in the Korean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Luck of Andrew Greeley | 7/12/1982 | See Source »

...from supercharged overdrive to bureaucratic caution. At Tandem Computers Inc., a rapidly growing high-tech firm south of San Francisco, the work week ritualistically climaxes in Friday-afternoon company-sponsored beer busts in the company cafeteria. By contrast, Dallas-based Mary Kay Cosmetics seeks more of a frills-and-lace image. Each year, at lavish seminars, the top producers among the firm's virtually all-female sales force are awarded pink Cadillacs, diamonds and mink coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cultured Corporate Winners | 7/5/1982 | See Source »

Guide's mistress (Anita Morris), torridly voluptuous in body-hugging see-through lace, is another stereonought. As she flaunts her breasts and wiggles her derriere, she disintegrates into a burlesque of female sexuality. The evening's most potent aphrodisiac is Montevecchi's display of her wares and her wiles in a number called Folies Bergeres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Shell Game | 5/24/1982 | See Source »

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