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...nudes from the Continent. As one of two co-editors, Hefner hired Jean-Louis Ginibre, 38, from Lui, France's own answer to Playboy. The other co-editor is Jon Carroll, 28, a long-haired, full-bearded alumnus of Rolling Stone and former editor of the now defunct counterculture magazine Rags. "We will not be as polished as Playboy," Carroll promised. "Certainly there will be male nudity. We will want to turn on women as well as men. One of our central goals is to help facilitate communication between the sexes...
Married. Sir Roy Welensky, 65, Prime Minister between 1956 and 1963 of the now-defunct Central African Federation (Rhodesia and Nyasaland); and Valerie Scott, 32, former Conservative Party worker in Britain; he for the second time, she for the first; in Salisbury, Rhodesia...
...COUSINS, 40, real estate developer. Seven years ago, in a move ridiculed by most businessmen, Cousins acquired the air rights over 70 acres of defunct railroad yards in a blighted part of town. Today he is about to open a $17 million, 17,000-seat coliseum on the property. For tenants, he bought the St. Louis Hawks basketball team and moved them to Atlanta, and has organized a National Hockey League team, the Atlanta Flames. Cousins has some $600 million in other construction planned for his site, including apartments, offices, a hotel and a convention hall. "In the next...
...becomes a professional sport, as some observers fear, there is still likely to be more money in selling the disks than in flipping them. Twenty-four years ago, a Los Angeles building inspector named Fred Morrison invented the Frisbee after studying the airworthy pie pans used by the now defunct Frisbie bakery company of Bridgeport, Conn. In 1956 he sold the patent on an improved design to the Wham-O Co. (those wonderful people who brought you the Hula-Hoop), and since then the royalties have been sailing in: about $800,000 to date...
...Years ago, when Sydney Gruson was running the now defunct New York Times international edition from Paris, his wife, Flora Lewis, sometimes used the telephone, office facilities and chauffeur-driven car of the paper's Paris bureau. In the absence of the bureau chief, she would sometimes occupy his private office-a practice that ended when one of the correspondents installed a special lock. The arrangement was curious because Lewis, a skilled journalist of wide experience, was then writing a column for Newsday. The couple then returned to New York, where he became a Times vice president...