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...final slate read 12-14, 13 one-goal games, no playoffs. Palm-slapping and post-goal hugging were painfully absent in this most trying of seasons...
...West Palm Beach...
...nobody, not even Hannah, deals better with the South of Holiday Inn Clam Plate Specials and exiles from the Bay of Pigs than McGuane. A drug bust is "too Cuban for words." Pomeroy's dog "kills a lizard; then, overcome with remorse, tips over in the palm shadows for a troubled snooze." The violence is lovingly plotted, coldly calculated, but respected. Councilman Peavey sends Nylon Pindar the thug to straighten Chet...
...weekend, causing monumental traffic jams along the narrow winding roads that lead to the tax haven. Once picturesque towns and villages have been despoiled by advertising. Posters of Johnnie Walker and the Marlboro man adorn the walls of roadside buildings, and billboards displaying the Ron Negrita girl under a palm tree contrast improbably with the splen did white peaks of the Pyrenees beyond. Cutting through the capital city is a gaudy strip of neon, glass and concrete, featuring gilt-balconied hotels, high-rise department stores and a six-story cemetery with burial vaults and showcases of floral tributes stacked atop...
Indeed, the new Ford look (the work of Palm Springs Surgeon M.R. Mazaheri) was something to call about. Reported TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane, covering Betty Ford's first post-surgery public appearance at a Hollywood dinner: "The woman looks absolutely spectacular." Betty, who in recent years has battled against breast cancer and drug and alcohol addiction, was obviously pleased. Said she: "I'm 60 years old and I wanted a nice new face to go with my beautiful new life...