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...Culver City, Calif. In 1953 the aspiring comedian won a spot on Groucho Marx's quiz show You Bet Your Life. His goofy dances and witty exchanges with Marx led to a contract with John Wayne and roles in such films as The High and the Mighty and Rio Bravo...
...There are more water views at Rio's Seafood Grill & Bar, tel: (1-808) 329 8200-one of Kona's best venues for a blowout feast. Being on holiday, you have probably thrown dietary caution to the winds, and that's just as well: portions here are enormous, even by U.S. standards. We took our leftovers away, and got another huge meal out of them the next...
...face down in the guacamole. Best wait for a sundowner at Lulu's, tel: (1-808) 331 2633. This Kona institution is especially popular with a younger crowd and offers ocean views as well as live music. There are more water views at Rio's Seafood Grill & Bar, tel: (1-808) 329 8200 - one of Kona's best venues for a blowout feast. Being on holiday, you have probably thrown dietary caution to the winds, and that's just as well: portions here are enormous, even by U.S. standards. We took our leftovers away, and got another huge meal...
...Texas-Mexico border, Customs and Border Patrol last month published an open request for bids from contractors who could provide 9,000 frozen beef and bean burritos per month to feed detained aliens. The request, found on the Federal Business Opportunities website under the title "Alien meals for Del Rio border patrol section," asks for boxes of five-ounce beef and bean burritos, individually wrapped and frozen to be delivered at least twice a month. The Eagle Pass border station, located on the banks of the Rio Grande, has the highest demand in the request, with an average consumption...
...RIVER OF DOUBT CANDICE MILLARD When he felt a little down, nothing picked Theodore Roosevelt up like a near suicidal adventure. In 1914, smarting from having lost the presidency to Woodrow Wilson, he undertook the descent of the scarily named Rio da Dúvida, the River of Doubt, an unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Millard charts the trip Roosevelt called his "last chance to be a boy," which was a calamity. The travelers were beset by piranhas; starvation; rapids; malaria; mutiny; Indians with poison-tipped arrows; and tiny Amazonian fish that attack the, um, loins. In the dark of the jungle...