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...millionaire at 56, Stephen employs more than 200 people (including five of his twelve children), he owns a 75-ft. trawler, rents a Colorado vacation condominium, and has a girth that testifies to his appreciation of the delicacies that sizzle on his grills. This fall he will start a promotion campaign to make Weber a grill for all seasons-catering not only to the summer chef but also to the diehard, if sometimes frostbitten, barbecue aficionado's Thanksgiving or Christmas roast turkey...
...unpredictable and often deadly antics. He is killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet. He can be as playful as a kitten and as lethal as a lion. He stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and carries a massive bulk of nearly 300 lbs., and within that girth courses the unharnessed ego of a small child, a craze for attention and reverence. Last week Idi Amin was playing to the hilt the role he loves best: he was standing full-glare in the spotlight, forcing a major power into a state of consternation. He had done it before...
Craig Hillier, 46, a Cleveland interior decorator, weighed 341 lbs. and seemed to be adding girth daily. He stopped for hamburgers on his way home, kept a box of candy under his bed for midnight snacks-and watched his blood pressure soar. "I was ready for the basket," says Hillier, who had tried every imaginable weight reduction gimmick, including amphetamines, without success. That was only five months ago. Now the 6 ft. 4 in. Hillier is down to a trim 200 lbs., feels so good he wants to start skiing and, patting his new flat stomach, boasts: "I have...
Front Runner. At any rate, she is bigger. More than 16 hands tall, coffee-colored, Ruffian has enormous dimensions, particularly for a filly. At age two her girth already measured 75½ in. (1½ in. more than Secretariat's at that age). Her hindquarters are huge, and she puts them to good use. Ruffian runs with a smooth, gliding stride, and no sign of strain. "She fools you because she runs so smooth and easy," says Panamanian Jockey Jacinto Vasquez, who also rides Foolish Pleasure. Says Trainer Frank Whiteley Jr., "Her speed scares the hell...
When Nixon's crony and bagman Charles "Bebe" Rebozo was under investigation by Newsday's great (in girth and ability) Bob Greene, John Dean, the president's counsel, decided to win one for Bebe. He sicced White House enforcer Jack Caulfield (so Caulfield has secretly testified) on the unsuspecting Greene. Caulfield suggested to the IRS that they audit Greene. Sure enough, at IRS urging, Greene was audited by New York state. He owed not a penny: the audit cost him only his time, accountants' charges and his peace of mind...