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Playboy plans to use the firm to sell subscriptions and products and run market surveys. Vittert remains president, sometimes working 60 hours at a stretch. He is a bachelor who does not drink, smoke or cuss and seldom dates. He drives a battered, four-year-old convertible, lives in a spartan one-room apartment and dislikes business entertaining to the point that he serves visitors sandwiches for lunch in his office. He professes little interest in making more money. "What can I do with it?" he asks, echoing the concern of the confused generation. "Eat four meals a day?" Instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MILLIONAIRES: Campus Conquistador | 3/8/1971 | See Source »

...want to fight." Instead of seeing Viet Cong, his men had to deal mainly with prostitutes seeking business, and swarms of kids selling Cokes and offering to do the G.I.s' laundry. Calley tells of making shy love to a young madam and then trying to dis cuss political philosophy with her: "Susie had never heard of Communism or democracy." If he explained the difference, Calley thought, and she said that she preferred Communism, "What am I to do? Kill her? Capture her? Because if she is a Communist, that's what my duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Calley's Confessions | 10/12/1970 | See Source »

...ADVOCATES (NET, 10-11 p.m.) dis cuss whether involuntary commitment on the grounds of mental illness should be abolished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Nov. 21, 1969 | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

NOTORIOUS LADIES OF THE FRONTIER by Harry Sinclair Drago. 270 pages. Dodd, Mlead. $6. What drove the West wild was ladies named Millie Hipps, Mattie Silks, Mammy Pleasant, Madame Moustache, Lurline Monte Verdi and Silver Dollar. Carefully chronicled and not a cuss word throughout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...underlines justice as a prerequisite. Nevertheless, lowans like their Governor's forthright ways, and this works in Hughes' favor. "I mainly talk from my gut," says Hughes. His often ragged syntax bears witness to a formal education that ended after a year of college, and he can cuss like a teamster. Once, local legend has it, he convened a meeting with the words: "All right, you sons of bitches, let's pray." He can also speak with a fervor honed by years as a Methodist lay preacher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: TWO TOUGH FIGHTS FOR THE SENATE | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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