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Such a clime, and such a corner of the world, is likely to produce a special type of ruler, and in Plaquemines it did: Leander Perez, cigar-chomping, white-suited boss of the parish for almost half a century. He ruled like an arrogant and protective plantation owner, although he preferred sowing oil leases to crops. He fought federal intervention with Faulknerian tenacity, a battle that began over control of oil reserves and evolved into a crusade against "forced integration," which he saw as the plot of an international Communist conspiracy. Taunted Governor Earl Long: "What are you going...
George Burns, 82, cigar-smoking ex-vaudevillian featured in the teeny-bopper movie Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band: "Now, they say, you should retire at 70. When I was 70 I still had pimples...
MARRIED. Mickey Rooney, 57, pint-size powerhouse actor whose film career began when he was five as a cigar-chomping troublemaker on two-reelers and later led to television stardom; and Janice Darlene Chamberlin, 39, a singer and writer, and close friend of four years; he for the eighth time, she for the second; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. Confided the bride about her new husband: "Mickey believes so much in the institution of marriage that I can't disappoint...
Power struggles are nothing new at Ford Motor Co., but the one that climaxed last week was a stunner. After weeks of futile maneuvering to save his job, Lee lacocca, 53, the harddriving, cigar-chomping president of the world's fourth largest manufacturing company, found himself quite bluntly sacked by his equally tough-minded boss, Chairman Henry Ford II. It was the culmination of months of behind-the-scenes quarreling between two of the auto industry's most respected-and often feared-executives. The end came for lacocca following a day of stormy meetings of the ten-member...
MacArthur at sixty, on the eve of his great war command, was, I found, still a spectacle. His hands trembled; his voice sometimes squeaked. But he paced, and roared, and pointed, and pounded, and stabbed with his cigar, and spoke with an intelligence and a magniloquence and a force that overwhelmed. He was holding himself...