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John L. Johnson Carlsbad, Calif...
...press, Nixon chose as companion none other than Hoffa's replacement, Teamsters President Frank Fitzsimmons. The missing Hoffa's name was never mentioned as Nixon, Fitzsimmons and other high union officials teed off in a benefit golf tournament at the La Costa country club in Carlsbad, Calif. The entourage that appeared for the former President's "coming out" was intriguing. Tournament participants included Anthony Provenzano, unofficial boss of New Jersey's Teamsters; Allen Dorfman, convicted in 1972 for accepting a kickback from a union pension-fund borrower; Jack Sheetz, a businessman indicted but not prosecuted...
...stupendous collection of early French modernist painting amassed on trips to Paris by two Russian millionaires: Sergei Schuhkin and his younger friend Ivan Morosov. After the revolution, Schuhkin fled to Paris, where, stripped of his capital and without his collection, he survived until 1937. Morosov died in 1921 in Carlsbad...
...fledgling film makers, Ihnat has an uninsistent and subtle style. He can catch the fleeting mood of a scene in a few shots, most impressively in a terse, brutal barroom brawl, and he has a good eye for local color. A ro deo parade down the main street of Carlsbad, N. Mex., is rendered faith fully and affectionately, complete with floats, officials waving smugly, three different kinds of bands (country, Mexican, rock) and a farmer's pickup truck bearing the admonition "Buy U.S.-Made Products." Throughout, the photography (by Tom Rolf) is excel lent, capturing the bleached and blinding...
...Carlsbad...