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...Kroc's that has become an awe-inspiring legend throughout the chain. Last month, on one of his incessant inspection tours around the empire, he walked into a McDonald's in Canada -and exploded like a raw potato in hot grease. "There was gum on the cement patio, cigarette butts between the wheel stops for the cars," he says. "There was rust on the wrought-iron railing, and the redwood fence needed to be restained. I went in there and said to the manager: 'You get somebody to mop this goddamned floor right...
...world's problems seemed far away as Henry Kissinger sat at a small table outside his San Clemente office. The sun was bright, the air cool and clear. Flowers ringed the small patio, and beyond the immaculate lawn lay the blue Pacific. From this tranquil outpost, the world looked peaceful. Watergate seemed manageable, the Congress friendly, and the press tame. But Kissinger's strength is that he knows all this is deceptive. The real world is not so idyllic, and Kissinger wants to get back into the real world as fast...
Life at the island is communal patio style. The children ride bicycles, Dad mans the barbecue, and everybody uses the marinas, miniature golf course, driving range and two swimming pools (four more are being built). Vacationers can take swimming lessons in the morning, play volleyball, basketball, bingo or bridge in the afternoon, and take in an outdoor family movie at night...
...seniors, they are chiefly concerned with getting their homework out of the way and whiling away the days until graduation. On sunny afternoons, they lounge on the school's smoking patio, and when they talk about their hopes for the future, they use words like "comfortable" and "secure." For entertainment, they drive their shiny new cars to Michael's in nearby Concord for pizza and beer. Their worries, says History Teacher Don Gould, are as old as adolescence: "Whether people like them, what they look like, and who's going out with whom...
...practitioners in the Dominican Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which was on the patio of a Santo Domingo hotel. Tamao, who planned to stay on the cross at least 48 hours, lasted half that long-19 hours with the cross in a horizontal position, 6½ upright. When doctors advised him that anything further would endanger his life, he yielded his place...