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Forster) is a $20-a-day Hollywood private eye who wears a vest, a trench coat and a Bogart mask of cynicism. "I hope you'll pardon the way I look. I just threw something on," a pretty suspect (Jessica Walter) tells him when he rings her doorbell. "You almost missed," retorts Banyon, in a line that dates from considerably earlier than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Viewpoints | 10/9/1972 | See Source »

...they operate. The percentage varies, but in South Africa the company donates about $1,000,000 a year to universities, sports and art foundations. Rupert has become a benevolent partner to his country's black majority. As far back as 1963, his South African plants pioneered a $6-a-day minimum wage, more than many South African blacks earn even now. Last week Rupert completed organization of a bank to finance development in black areas of South Africa and in the black nations to the north. Since 1966, he has been industrial adviser to Lesotho, a black kingdom entirely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: King-Sized Deal | 10/2/1972 | See Source »

...charge was George Bliss, 53, veteran of many exposes and Pulitzer prizewinner. Bliss, who had done earlier stories on election fraud, got a break last spring when he learned of a vacant patronage job at the election board. Of 200 positions, only four were for Republicans, including the $20-a-day clerk's post. To fill it Bliss needed an "inside man" at the Trib, one who would not be recognized by city officials. He chose William Mullen, 27, who has only limited reporting experience. "His chief asset," says Bliss, "is that he is a very...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Inside Man | 9/25/1972 | See Source »

...Ruth Jacobs, a tourist from Queens, N.Y. "The embassy was adamantly opposed to giving us aid or getting us out of there." Eventually Britons came to the rescue. The British Social Service dispensed cash for food. The Grosvenor Hotel put the travelers up for a night in $20-a-day rooms without charge, and British Caledonian Airways and Wimpy International Ltd., a hamburger chain, chartered a plane and flew them home free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Down and Out in London or Elsewhere | 9/18/1972 | See Source »

...local bottled-gas millionaire-is the second major luxury hotel to break the Tijuana mold. The initial gamble was made by Hotelier Mauro Chavez Cobos and a partner, Miguel Barbachano, who in 1970 opened the modern 92-room Palacio Azteca, which has rooms ranging up to a $94-a-day Imperial Suite. The hotel drew so many sound-citizen tourists that Chavez plans to add 250 more units and a 1,200-seat convention hall next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Respectable Tijuana | 8/28/1972 | See Source »

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