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...bird's belly-Bokassa donned a flowing ermine and velvet cape with a 39-ft. train. The Emperor then took an oath to defend the constitution, which he suspended after seizing power in a 1966 coup. At the climactic moment, Bokassa, 56, crowned himself and placed a smaller coronet on the head of the youngest of his three wives, 28-year-old Empress Catherine. (Rumor has it that the Emperor also keeps a blonde Rumanian mistress on the side.) Two-year-old Crown Prince Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dressed in a white naval uniform, yawned occasionally during the ceremony...
...parent corporation's National Broadcasting Co. subsidiary. He became head of NBC in 1955 and was elevated to the presidency of RCA in 1966. Shortly after, he started RCA on an ambitious diversification effort. His main acquisitions: Hertz Corp., Random House Inc., Cushman & Wakefield Inc. (real estate) and Coronet Industries Inc. (a carpet and furniture manufacturer). A majority of RCA's board backed Sarnoff throughout his acquisition program, and even last week directors did not criticize his management-but they thought his pay was high enough...
Broader Appeal. Despite its growing sobriety, the question recurs whether High Times is not in fact encouraging lawbreaking when it advertises itself as "devoted entirely to the exploration of psychoactive drugs." However, hip-casual Editor Ed Dwyer, 27, formerly with Coronet, draws a careful distinction. Says he: "We support the legalization of marijuana, but we never advocate the use of it. We report on its use and the interesting facts associated with altering consciousness, but we do not lead our readers into drugs. Everybody must decide by himself. It's a personal thing...
...been there only a year when Ebony Publisher John Johnson offered him the editorship of Negro Digest. The publication had been founded in 1942 as a carbon copy of the Reader's Digest, just as Ebony imitated LIFE, and Jet, another Johnson publication, was a black substitute for Coronet. Despite such well-Digested features as "My Most Humiliating Jim Crow Experience," the imitation collapsed in 1951. To keep abreast of the new black militancy, Johnson revived it ten years later and turned it over to Fuller...
...reformed Highly able, Macleod takes on the punishing task of running the economy while seriously handicapped by arthritis. LORD CHANCELLOR: Quintin Hogg, 62, who becomes Britain's chief law officer and leader of the House of Lords. A political grandstander and heir to a peerage, Hogg renounced his coronet to run for Commons in 1963, but with his new post has accepted a life peerage...