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...example, he is currently attempting to convince the U.S. government to experiment with growing a palm-tree-type plant that produces a chemical oil similar to olive...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Overdosing on the Amazon | 6/7/1984 | 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 »

...solution is scalp-reduction surgery, which can shrink a bald spot the size of a palm to the width of a finger. The procedure, developed about eight years ago in Canada, is performed in a doctor's office under local anesthesia. The plastic surgeon or dermatologist makes an incision in the crown and then tugs firmly on the scalp, pulling hair-covered areas from the sides of the head toward the bare area on top (see diagram). A section of the bald scalp is cut away, and the incision is closed with stitches. The 60-min. procedure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gone Today, but Hair Tomorrow | 5/28/1984 | See Source »

After David Kennedy's death, at the age of 28, in a Palm Beach, Fla., hotel suite two weeks ago, his uncle Senator Edward Kennedy issued a statement expressing the family's grief and final hope: "With trust in God, we all pray that David has finally found the peace that he did not find in life." But the merciless public attention that tormented the third son of the slain Senator Robert F. Kennedy has intensified since the young man's death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Still No Peace | 5/14/1984 | See Source »

There were drugs in David's room. Jay Pintacuda, chief medical examiner of the Palm Beach sheriff's department crime lab, said the police found 1.3 grams of high-grade cocaine. He reported that an autopsy discovered traces of cocaine and Demerol, a powerful prescription painkiller, in his body. But it was too early to know what exactly had caused his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The One Caught in the Undertow | 5/7/1984 | See Source »

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