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Last week Riklis, 45, completed a major step in that direction. In a somewhat serpentine financial maneuver, Riklis last December had Rapid-American Corp., the keystone of his corporate complex, make a friendly tender offer designed to strengthen his holding in Glen Alden Corp. Glen Alden is a onetime coal company that Riklis has been using for acquisitions in such areas as Playtex underwear, B.V.D. shorts and, most recently, Schenley Industries. The company had been under the rather tenuous control (14%) of McCrory Corp., a retailing outfit that is 51%-owned by Rapid-American. Thus, by exchanging Rapid securities worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Full Circle | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...conceded, "and it wouldn't make any difference if Jesus Christ were mayor; we'd still have a bad reputation." He offered a trade: "If the college will get rid of the beatniks, kooks and hippies over there, I'll shut down the houses." Police Chief Glen Means explained that prostitution was a "necessary evil." Because of it, he says, "there was not a single case of rape in Terre Haute last year. Oh, a few college girls hollered rape, but it really wasn't." Other citizens argued that the trollops kept the college boys contented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indiana: Open House in Terre Haute | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...Glen Campbell is waiting for to have it made-"If I can just make a 40-year-old housewife put down her dish towel and say 'OH!' "-he has it made. I'll drop anything, including my 2½-year-old daughter to watch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 14, 1969 | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...substantial as tapioca. They struck body blows at Shirley Tern ple movies and George M. Cohan musicals. A chorus boy wore a huge papier-mache Richard Nixon head. Mid-finale, Jones apologized "if we've offended anybody," and the cast broke into This Land Is My Land. The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour (CBS) is a revival of the summer-substitute show starring Citybilly Singei Campbell (TIME, Jan. 31). Comic Pal Paulsen usually pops in, and the result is pleasantly unobjectionable. Particularly refreshing is the lack of overproduction numbers and the lighting psychedelia now in vogue. The same could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: From Beautiful Downtown Nowhere | 2/14/1969 | See Source »

...will sleep with him." This had caused a moment of uneasiness about going to visit a cousin of mine there, but he was a good guide. I asked him about the intimacy I felt at the Feast, and he told me that it was in this house in "the glen" that most of the T-groups were held. Memories must have been rampant, since almost everyone at Antioch had been in a T-group at least once, and it shows...

Author: By Diana M. Henry, | Title: Probing Antioch College's Novel Psyche | 2/5/1969 | See Source »

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