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...Hans Lenzlinger, but who is more widely known as "the People-Smuggler of Zurich." Now 44, Lenzlinger used to be a big-game hunter in Africa and a trader in animal skins. Then he opened a massage parlor in Zurich in the late '60s. After the parlor ran afoul of the vice squad, he switched to the business of selling freedom. In two years, he claims, he has helped 152 East Germans, Hungarians, Czechs and Bulgarians flee to freedom. His standard fee: $10,000 a head (though he offers reduced rates for group escapes...
...calves were too fat. I couldn't click my heels." That was Peter G. Peterson's explanation of why, as Secretary of Commerce, he ran afoul of White House Strongmen H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. Peterson was ungracefully let go last December, but the Administration's loss became investment banking's gain. The personable, witty Peterson, 47, has been named chairman of Wall Street's Lehman Brothers, succeeding Frederick Ehrman, 67, who is retiring. "Pete" Peterson, a master at arranging international deals, will speed Lehman's expansion in international finance. Among opportunities that...
...vowed to fight any restrictions, by breaking the law if necessary. "If I have to go to jail for a good cause, that's okay with me," he told newsmen at a press conference in Manhattan. Meanwhile, Guccione pledged, Penthouse will provide financial support to retailers who run afoul of local police, and create a nonprofit subscription service that will mail banned magazines-Playboy included-to readers who can no longer buy them locally. He also plans to launch an "army" of college students who will conduct door-to-door surveys in censored areas to collect local attitudes toward...
Since then, in a pattern evident in other denominations as well, the liberal designs of U.P.C. officials have run afoul of a growing conservatism among the membership. "Some of the daring pursuits of national church bodies led to rancor in the ranks," wrote Dennis Shoemaker, editor of a U.P.C...
LOWELL P. WEICKER JR., 42, first-term Republican Senator from Connecticut, is the most controversial member of the committee. By conducting his own investigation of John Dean and others, he has run afoul of his fellow committee members, who have publicly reprimanded him. Primed for a vendetta against the White House guard, he may provide explosive moments before the cameras...