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After church, Lyndon dutifully let Lady Bird chauffeur him away in their beige Lincoln Continental. When she stopped to inspect a new park a short distance away, the President made his move. Because the steel sutures from his Nov. 16 "cuttin' " were still in his abdo men (they were removed at week's end), it was a painful maneuver, but Johnson managed to hoist himself behind the steering wheel and blithely drove away. After a turn through Johnson City, a quick circle around his boyhood home, and a short spin down an old gravel road, the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: A Different Kind of Cuttin' | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

...Lawyer David Baldwin, who owns International Exports, Ltd., with three other attorneys, all in their 30s, plans to make it even more irresistible. Though the discothèque is already drawing capacity crowds, he is selling 250 special memberships at $50 each; with membership come such added advantages as chauffeur service in a yellow 1933 Rolls-Royce limousine, private mailboxes hidden behind a movable wall on the premises, and a key to the back door. To ensure the proper ambiance, Baldwin and his partners are giving away 100 memberships to the best-looking girls they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Discotheques: Bundled in Bond | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...called the Don Juan of the Slanted Eyes. He disrobed an era of Montparnasse models and claims to have painted 3,000 nudes. He once tattooed a watch on his wrist and a ring on his finger; when wealthier, he capped the radiator of his chauffeur-driven automobile with a Rodin bronze. He arrived in France from Japan in 1913 wearing a purple morning coat and a pith helmet; eleven years later he was the most fashionable painter in Paris. Tsugouharu Foujita, now 79, is a living souvenir of the days when the School of Paris was in kindergarten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Wild Man of Wisteria | 10/28/1966 | See Source »

...Pete") Estes last week presided over a demonstration of '67 models, then got into his new, chauffeur-driven Caprice and headed back to his office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Safety Lines | 9/23/1966 | See Source »

...capitals he had most recently visited. There were frequent interruptions, by telephone, from the directors' wives, who each had various social and domestic problems." Later, Rees recounted, they all adjourned for lunch and large dry martinis at the Dorchester, and at 3:30 returned to their offices, where chauffeur-driven cars waited to whisk them home from the "long, hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: HOW THE TEA BREAK COULD RUIN ENGLAND | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

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