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...Sigmund Freud said that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but as Bill Clinton discovered, that's not the case when you're the occupant of the Oval Office. The same goes for a pretzel. Washington's official line is that wartime Prez George W. Bush was taken to the mat by a lowly pretzel while watching American football. But world reaction has been fairly skeptical. Surely President Bush, a potato chip and pork rinds sort of guy, is familiar with proper snack consumption. (Open mouth. Chew. Swallow. Repeat.) Was this a rogue pretzel acting on its own deranged...
...wisecracking, Cuban-cigar-smoking, martini-drinking former Marine Corps fighter pilot, Lutz is passionate about beauty and speed. He not only loves sports cars but also flies his own Czech L39C jet fighter and sometimes commutes to work in his own helicopter. Born to Swiss parents in Zurich, Lutz has always moved back and forth between Europe and the U.S. He smashed his uncle's Ford coupe into a wall at age eight and walked away from a helicopter accident in 1991. He started at GM in 1960, cruised through BMW, lodged at Ford and then landed at Lee Iacocca...
...POCKET FURNITURE Droog Design, the loopy but inventive Dutch design collective, was approached by Picus, the Cadillac of cigar-box manufacturers, to find new ways to use Picus' wood manufacturing know-how. Droog came up with a series of multipurpose cabinets and boxes, all of which fit within one another and can be arranged in multiple configurations. The containers paid homage to their smoky origin but went on fantastic flights of fancy as stamp boxes, keepsake boxes and, of course, an elaborately reinvented cigar...
...Pocket Furniture Droog Design, the loopy but inventive Dutch design collective, was approached by Picus, the Cadillac of cigar-box manufacturers, to find new ways to use Picus' wood manufacturing know-how. Droog came up with a series of multipurpose cabinets and boxes, all of which fit within one another and can be arranged in multiple configurations. The containers paid homage to their smoky origin but went on fantastic flights of fancy as stamp boxes, keepsake boxes and, of course, an elaborately reinvented cigar...
...consensus. Born in a working-class Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood, he rose to become a lawyer, a bank CEO and a moderate Rockefeller Republican. He describes himself as a "lunch-pail guy"--albeit one who owns a vineyard in Tuscany and who celebrated his promotion with a Cohiba Esplendido cigar and a $400 bottle of 1963 Taylor port...