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Meantime, from Aspen, Colo., where he is at work on "another theological thriller," The Exorcist's author, William Peter Blatty, grumbled: "I'm sick of hearing that the movie is a success because of a rediscovery of the occult. A thousand or more books have been written on the occult in the last ten years-they've each sold about ten copies." Blatty acknowledges that The Exorcist was plagued by a "series of disasters": halfway through the filming, fire destroyed the set, and the man who was playing the director died. But he notes: "There has been...
John J. Burke and Joseph M. Segel have been running multimillion-dollar businesses, but they run them no more. Burke, 50, spent last week with his family, skiing on their favorite mountain, Ajax, at Aspen, Colo. Three weeks ago he resigned unexpectedly as president and chief executive of Automation Industries Inc., after "a difference in philosophy" with the company's founder-chairman. Segel, 42, prepared to leave the Franklin Mint, the world's largest producer of coins and medals for collectors, which he founded. He retires this week as chairman, five years after he voluntarily began easing...
...Agnew as his running mate. Nonetheless, by the deadline hundreds of suggestions had poured into the White House to be tabulated by Miss Woods. Nixon flew with the assembled list aboard Marine One, his personal helicopter, to the mountaintop solitude of Camp David. There he dined alone in Aspen Lodge and, by the time he went to bed at 11:30 p.m., had winnowed the list to five names: Ford, John Connally, Ronald Reagan, Nelson Rockefeller and Elliot Richardson, even though Richardson had taken himself out of the running. He had quite properly argued the impropriety of the man most...
...Aspen, Colo...
Between bookings he lives with his wife Annie in a $150,000, split-level three-bedroom house on a wooded slope near Aspen. Folks coming to call on Denver sometimes have to track him down on nearby ski trails or golf courses or, at the very least, up on the roof in a glass-enclosed loft where he likes to watch eagles through a telescope. "There is no artifice to John," says Folk Singer Tom Paxton. "John is a Druid, a tree worshiper, an elf, a sprite." Just the man, perhaps, to take the curse off music that makes people...