Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company of pretty. 28-year-old French Actress Etchika Choureau, who, for three years, lived across the street from him in fashionable Souissi, a suburb of Rabat. But Etchika has returned to Paris. One of his close friends last year was U.S. Navy Lieut. Commander Leon Blair, a brash, talkative Texan and former public relations officer at the U.S. naval base at Kenitra. Blair shipped in pecan trees from Texas for Hassan's garden, prairie dogs for the royal zoo, ten-gallon hats for Hassan's princely head. When left-wing Premier Abdallah Ibrahim protested Blair...
Crab Fancier. The Emperor leads a busy if sheltered life, studying and signing 2,500 laws and documents a year, attending 50 or more public functions on the palace grounds. He still keeps a properly royal reserve. At one affair, he was startled when a brash U.S. Congressman wanted him to autograph a 100-yen bill; he refused. A fussily frugal man who goes around turning out unneeded lights, Hirohito is fond of wandering in old clothes about the grounds with a trowel in hand in case he spots a choice sample of fungus. But the Emperor's real...
...close of his brash, autobiographical Presidents Who Have Known Me (1950), Washington Lawyer and Laughing Boy George E. Allen, now 64, long a ringleader of fun and games for White House occupants, sniggered: "Fear not, I tell myself; the men who emerge as our leaders will have the incalculable advantage of knowing me." Allen may find it rough going in enticing John F. Kennedy into the recreations that he enjoyed with Gettysburg Neighbor Dwight Eisenhower (farming, bridge and golf), Harry Truman (poker) or Franklin D. Roosevelt (for whom Allen was a top jester as well as a District of Columbia...
Luckily, many of the A.F.L. owners are moneybags, who knew that losses would come before profits. Founder of the league-and owner of the Dallas Texans -is soft-spoken Lamar Hunt, 28, onetime bench-riding end at Southern Methodist and son of Texas-sized Millionaire H. L. Hunt. Brash Bud Adams, 37, owner of the Houston Oilers, is the son of the chairman of Phillips Petroleum Co. Barron Hilton, 32, son of Hosteler Conrad Hilton, is president of the Los Angeles Chargers...
Everything about the tiny (500 students) Roman Catholic college of Belmont Abbey, nestling in the farmlands of southern North Carolina, suggests rural serenity. Everything, that is, save Basketball Coach Al McGuire, 32. Brash as Broadway, New York-born Al McGuire still has a subway tang to his speech as he blows his horn with the stridency of a barker at Coney. "I fill the people's gymnasiums, give 'em a good show and a good ball game," he says. "I may make silly statements, but I'm no jerk...