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...care where the dust would settle if he ran as a third-party candidate. He is not interested in party fealty. He champions conservatism wherever it comes from. And these campaign forays are more than ego trips. There must be a tidy profit in all of those buttons, hats, cuff links and clutter he sells...
Amiable and approachable, he frequently answers his own phone in the President's office, spends hours dispensing off-the-cuff advice to callers with problems. Big Daddy lives modestly enough, but he does have a $3,000,000 Israeli-built personal jet, which he has used to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, among other trips. He rockets around Kampala at breakneck speed in his own Jeep. Last year a military policeman warned him against speeding; Amin cheerfully accepted the reprimand. ''It just goes to show," he said, "that I am not above...
...stately neo-Tudor home at Prides Crossing, Mass., 60 miles south of Manchester. He seldom shows up at the Union Leader but phones the paper every day from wherever he happens to be, to "keep track of things" and often to dictate a front-page editorial straight off the cuff. He never writes them out in advance because he feels that "plain talk is more effective...
...recreation, the Kings maintain a mountain retreat in Vail, Colo., a home in Palm Springs, Calif., and an island estate on Maui, Hawaii. He drives a radio-equipped Cadillac, maintains an extensive collection of antique guns, wears monogrammed shirts and cowboy boots, and boasts several hundred pairs of cuff links, many of them solid gold. "My life-style has not changed in ten years," King has been heard to claim...
When the President emerged, he was accompanied by no music, and received only perfunctory applause from the delegates. Since he could not get the seat he felt the dignity of his office required, he walked directly to the podium. As the President spoke off the cuff, Meany sat glowering near by, occasionally muttering a sardonic rejoinder. When he finished, Nixon stepped down from the stand to shake hands with delegates. Within moments, Meany gaveled the convention back to order and sent the President on his way. The delegates gave the labor boss a standing ovation...