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...symbolic effect is amplified, too, when industrious, influential citizens by the million become cocaine scofflaws. A computer programmer snorts with his pal the lawyer, who buys grams from her neighbor the contractor. The builder also sells ounces to the local junior college teacher and the restaurateur, and buys his pounds out of town from a full-time coke broker in Florida. "Getting coke is just a telephone call away," says Chuck, 34, a San Francisco insurance executive...
...snug, not bigoted They say that the prices of their brick bungalows will fall if a black family moves near by. "What people fear here is not skin color," says Real Estate Salesman Eugene Bielawa, "but devaluation of what they've worked all their lives fora nice home." Restaurateur Christos Rozos, who came from Greece in 1962 is wary of black Americans. "Why do they want to move here?" he wonders. "We've spent a lot of money to make this street beautiful...
...that "an actor should act." There seemed to be more good scripts when he was younger. Maybe it's that the world has become too bewildering for writers to come to any conclusions. At any rate he has written his first script with a Los Angeles friend, Lawyer-Restaurateur Ron Buck. He will direct and star in Harry and Son, a story about a father's struggle to understand and control a 22-year-old son. No, he says, Harry is not an attempt to deal with his feelings about his son Scott, although he "definitely" intends...
...south-of-the-border binge has been a bonanza for restaurateurs like Ramon Gallardo, 45, a-Mexican immigrant and ex-dishwasher who opened a St. Louis dining spot called Casa Gallardo just six years ago. The place quickly became so popular that General Mills purchased it in 1979 and immediately began building Casa Gallardo restaurants from Florida to Ohio. The chain (1981 sales: $20.4 million) now has 17 outlets and will soon open seven more. Gallardo, who was promoted from Casa Gallardo president to chairman last June, now drives a silver Mercedes and lives in a posh St. Louis suburb...
DIED. Joseph Kipness, 71, bouncy, bustling Broadway producer and restaurateur (Joe's Pier 52), who with bottomless enthusiasm made and lost fortunes backing such hits as La Plume de Ma Tante and High Button Shoes (727 performances) and flops like Frankenstein (which lasted one night and cost more than $2 million); of cancer; in New York City...