Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recall," says Roberts, "nobody has ever been invited to be a member of this club that Bob and I haven't met." Augusta National's dues are a secret, as is its membership list-although some of the members are so prominent (Dwight D. Eisenhower, Rubber Baron Leonard Firestone, Sportsman John Hay Whitney) that their identities are hard to hide. And no club has stricter rules. Unlike other clubs, where a member merely has to vouch for his guests, for example, Augusta members must physically accompany guests around the course to make certain all niceties are observed...
Their loyalty, of course, has a basis in fear, the political fear of the vicious Tonton Macoute and the mystic fear that Duvalier's own voodoo practice has generated. He takes the name "Baron Samedi"--one of the manifestations of the voodoo deity--and in 1963, when he popularized the story that he had engineered Kennedy's assassination through voodoo, many Haitians believed...
Despite such problems, a furious remodeling program has added manicured new gardens to the academy, as well as indoor plumbing for the six guest bungalows and electric light for all the buildings. An airstrip is being built nearby for the Maharishi's new twin-engined Beechcraft Baron, the gift of the International Meditation Society, and a rough helipad has been cleared away on the hillside. Most of the improvements have been bankrolled by the initiation fee of the Maharishi's move ment-a flat donation of the pilgrim's salary for one week, which...
...William Marshall (511 pages; Bartholomew House; $6.95) is notable, by contrast, for its more traditional approach. No new-fangled gadgets here; just the plain, old-fashioned dildo. That is understandable, since the plot is a plain, old-fashioned story about the raunchy movie world. The hero is "the Baron," Hollywood's No. 1 superstar. He has a "tremendous problem." He is forever being "laughed out of bedrooms," so he asks the boys over an makeup to fashion a substitute artifact for him. He kills a girl with...
Porsche's strategy for the race was to run at the heels of the faster GT40s, hoping that the strain of the 24-hour grind would take its toll. "The important thing," said Baron Huschke von Hanstein, Porsche's team manager, "was to stay with the Fords, not losing contact, and wear them out." The plan worked perfectly. One after another, the little white Porsches took turns dicing with the Fords for the lead; after only four hours, one of the GT40s pulled into the pits with transmission troubles, the other retired eleven hours later with a damaged...