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What is your favorite car--one that you bought? -Dennis Abplanalp DAYTON, OHIOI love my Chevy Tahoe. Especially now with the baby, I need something to hold all my luggage. But I'll do some things to make it cool--lower it down, put some big wheels and tires on it, a nice sound system and blacked-out windows...
...DIED. Robert Abplanalp, 81, inventor of the plastic valve used to distribute aerosol sprays; in Bronxville, New York. After making a fortune on his patented valve?some 4 billion are manufactured each year?Abplanalp became better known as one of former President Richard Nixon's closest friends and confidants?including during Nixon's 1974 resignation?a role Abplanalp described with modesty. "My job," he once said, "was to tell a couple of small jokes...
...magazine ran huge color pictures of it and its proud new occupant. Over the years, scores of such photographs appeared in newspapers and magazines. Alas, it all ended in scandal: Nixon had misled the press about what he had paid for the property, and in fact his friend Robert Abplanalp had provided more than a million dollars' so he could buy it; furthermore, Nixon used several millions of dollars worth of government money to increase security and make improvements. Better a Clintonesque, jerry- rigged vacation than that...
...clownish 5 o'clock shadow of the first Nixon-Kennedy television debate. In the "I am not a crook" protest. Lighting fires in the White House fireplace in the middle of summer. Kneeling with Henry Kissinger in prayer. Phone calls to Woody Hayes. Bebe Rebozo. Robert Abplanalp. Comic names, madcap circumstances. The man who exalted the "Enemies List," vowing not to hate his haters, waving bravely from the chopper door, then flying back to California toward a town with a name that sounds like clemency...
John Caulfield, 53, Ehrlichman aide and former New York City police officer who tried to calm McCord and keep him from telling of White House connection to Watergate burglary. Suffered from ulcers and underwent stomach surgery. Works for Millionaire Industrialist Robert Abplanalp, one of Nixon's closest friends, at aerosol-valve manufacturing company in Yonkers...