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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million at present, Revson was Revlon's largest shareholder. He was often more difficult to work for than compete against. Whether he was in Revlon's offices in Manhattan's General Motors Building or out entertaining on his 257-ft. yacht, Ultima II, he followed every detail of the business-right down to discouraging pantsuits for women and beards for men at Revlon headquarters. He frequently went against the advice of subordinates, as in 1966, when he bought a small drug company and absorbed it into Revlon as USV Pharmaceuticals. Last year the company's health...
Jackie and Aristotle Onassis reportedly drew up a 170-point marriage contract covering every possible detail of their married life. In 1969, Kleenex Heir James Kimberly, then 63, and his third wife, Jacqueline Trezise, then 19, signed a prenuptial contract limiting any possible alimony payments to $18,000 for every year of marriage. Her divorce lawyer is now seeking a larger settlement on the grounds that she was "a mere schoolgirl" when she signed...
Udall's main target is the moderate-to-left end of the party spectrum. He offers progressive-sounding programs without going into too much entangling detail like George McGovern's ill-fated plan to give every American $1,000. Udall intends to avoid the McGovern mistake of alienating centrists and conservatives. He disarms those who disagree with him by resorting to an easy Western humor, so much so that sympathizers cautioned him to appear a bit more serious in public if he wants to convey a presidential image...
Magnetic Puzzle. At the very least, proof of the existence of the monopole would solve a mystery that has baffled scientists for more than a century. The elegant equations that Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell worked out in 1865 described in detail the symmetrical relationship between electricity and magnetism. They accounted, for example, for the magnetic field formed by every electric current, and they predicted the electric currents that can be generated by moving magnetic fields. But they could not solve one puzzle. Complete symmetry between electricity and magnetism meant that there must be a monopole-a basic magnetic particle...
Synoptic Vision. Cavafy possessed that power. With a pagan selection of detail-the gaze of an eye, the tilt of a head -he evokes the ardor of youthful flesh as tunelessly as does a frieze on a Grecian urn. Indeed, Cavafy introduces the shapers of the ancient world-the Ptolemies, Julius Caesar, Marc Antony-as if they were embarking on their adventures this very day. Simultaneously, he moves contemporary people backward into the total stillness of history so that they seem to have been formed in the ruins of Pompeii. Except for Yeats, no modern poet has surpassed Cavafy...