Miles claims that when Richard Nixon left the White House, the staff would double-check the silverware. This was pre-Watergate, mind you.
Miles muses that in 1973 he bought Polaroid stock at $7 a share. "It's probably up millions by now!". Polaroid went bankrupt in 2011 thanks largely to Technology Marches On.
Modern research suggests that steak actually is healthier than wheat germ.
There's the mention of Albert Shanker, then head of a labor union of teachers. Even then, you'd have to be informed on labor issues to know about Shanker's existence.
Howard Cosell, a lauded sports broadcaster, is also present. Cosell would retire from broadcasting in the 1980s.
, a wonderful piece of Dixieland jazz performed by Woody Allennote himself.