Word: bachelors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...warmest friendship," says a photo inscription from Ronald Reagan, whose Inauguration ceremonies Gray helped arrange. By day he likes to be seen with his pals in high places, including CIA Director William Casey, Senator Paul Laxalt and most of the Cabinet. By night, if his friends have to work, Bachelor Gray squires their wives to so many Washington parties that he claims he wears out two tuxedos a year...
...shortly before 8 a.m. in Harbin, a city of 2 million in northern China. Bai Shiming, 29, an energetic young bachelor, is preparing to open his shop, the Xiurong photographic studio. Bai sports a gray, Western-style suit and light tan shirt but no tie. He checks to see that all the lights are working properly, then readies his ancient-looking plate camera. A few minutes later the first customers arrive, usually in groups of two or three. Most request simple unsmiling head shots, but for more elaborate wedding pictures, Bai can provide a white dress with train...
Christopher Bernard Wilder seemed the very model of a modern swinging bachelor. An Australian native, he came to America in 1970 at the age of 24, eventually settled in Boynton Beach, Fla., and soon amassed a small fortune in the construction business. Handsome and well-tailored, he acquired six parcels of Palm Beach County real estate worth nearly $400,000, took ski vacations in chic Vail, Colo., dabbled in photography and raced cars, finishing a respectable 17th in the Miami Grand Prix (prize: $400). A Jacuzzi bubbled outside his bedroom, a speedboat was moored to his private dock...
Appointed to the bench in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter, Claiborne had been a highly successful local criminal lawyer, numbering reputed Las Vegas mobsters among his satisfied clients. A twice-divorced bachelor with a taste for young women, Claiborne owned three cars and lived in a $250,000 home. From the start, he was not overly hospitable to federal outsiders. He once threatened to jail an IRS agent and an Assistant U.S. Attorney, and publicly assailed the Justice Department's local Organized Crime Strike Force for going after "little fish." When the agents went after Big Fish Claiborne, they...
...Road has logged more than a million miles, according to the network, and has worn out seven mobile homes. "Once, in Wyoming," Kuralt recalls, "everything broke down at once, and Izzy was reduced to tears." Although! Kuralt and his crew are married, there is still a sort of bachelor's liberty to it all, and the current vehicle, an FMC, looks like the habitat of tomcats. The seat cushions are misshapen and filthy, the refrigerator contains nothing but beer and soda, the larder has only peanut butter and crackers, but coffee is perpetually on the boil. Kuralt favors...