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...many Southerners were convinced that Nixon holds no grudge against them, despite the purpose of his trip. Nearly 100,000 of them jammed the city's streets, many of them in the carnival-like French Quarter, to watch his open car pass. They pressed close, tore off his cuff links, cheered him warmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: NIxon Goes South for Integration | 8/24/1970 | See Source »

Flying High. Part of the problem is that John King has become rich quickly in a complicated, volatile business -and has the image of an archetypical wheeler-dealer. He wears flashy, monogrammed boots and shirts and owns 3,000 pairs of gold cuff links. He uses a fleet of airplanes as other men use taxis, and collects friends and acquaintances in high places. A space buff, he has put two former astronauts, Walter Schirra and Frank Borman, in top positions in his companies. King is a lover of the West; he owns an ostentatious ranch outside Denver, which he leases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Kingdom Besieged | 8/3/1970 | See Source »

...coming from. At 43, he is a big bear of a man-6 ft. 3 in., 230 lbs.-with the hard blue eyes of a riverboat gambler. He has a strong _ fondness for the trappings of success: custom-built limousines with fur upholstery, nine airplanes, 3,000 pairs of cuff links (many of them solid gold) and homes in Denver, Hawaii, Palm Springs and Manhattan. His ranch outside Granby, Colo., encompasses 400 acres, has guesthouses that accommodate 120 people, a shooting gallery and a beauty parlor. What else could a man wish for? King wants to be a billionaire within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Personalities: Big John | 5/25/1970 | See Source »

...Mitchell guests tuned out ("Oh shut up, Bob Hope!" yelled Shirley MacLaine) and divvied up their own prizes for predicting the Oscar outcome. Jack Cassidy, a master student of the Academy's cynicism and sentimentality, scored a perfect seven out of seven and won a pair of cuff links. Ruth Berle, with three out of seven, took home a consolation award of an autographed glossy photo of Ruth Roman. Meanwhile, unwatched on any of the Mitchells' TV sets, Bob Hope was asking "How 'bout this show? It was a goody, wasn't it?"-unaware that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mocking the Mockery | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

Herbert Schnabel's tastes run to handmade gold cuff links. He drives a Soviet-built Chaika, the same make as Communist Chief Walter Ulbricht's. He probably earns about $125,000 a year (before stiff taxes) as president of Lucie Kaiser K.G., near Leipzig. East Germany's largest semiprivate women's fashion firm, it employs 370 workers, has annual sales of $3,000,000 and exports 65% of its product, for which Schnabel has won the Medal of the German Democratic Republic. Schnabel dates his prosperity from 1960 when, to raise capital for expansion, he sold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East Germany: Capitalists Among Communists | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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