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...Maes" (as the Government's National Mortgage Association certificates are blithely called). The Board of Trade is the nation's largest commodities exchange, a market that has become to the late '70s what the stock market used to be to the late '60s: a heady, go-go whirl that amounted to some $730 billion last year. Intones one Chicago broker: "This is the last bastion of pure capitalism in the world...
...Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude go-go club, was turned out of office...
...character sketches unseen since the early days of Jonathan Winters. "Earthquake!" he will yell, jumping up and down, before he rushes out to the audience to heckle himself. Within seconds, he is back onstage, giving a beautiful basso profundo rendition of Shakespeare, followed by rapid-fire impressions of a go-go boy, Long John Silver and characters from a Japanese science-fiction movie. "It's madness all around," he explains. "But the center is very calm, like the center of a hurricane...
...poverty of his sharecropper family, he has led an aggressive life. He quit school in the eighth grade, entered the Army at 14, worked nights at a General Motors assembly plant, whizzed through two marriages, two divorces and a bankruptcy by age 21 and finally opened eight "Hustler" go-go bars around Ohio. He started Hustler, the most vulgar of the leading sex magazines, as a newsletter for his bars, and pushed it in four years to a circulation of almost 2 million, with a profit last year of some $13 million. In recent months he branched...
...legendary go-go banker. At just about that time, a mood of boundless growth infected Atlanta. Beginning in the late 1960s, the number of apartment building permits swelled 133% in three years; first-class hotel-room space doubled in 18 months; downtown office footage grew 30% in a single year. Lane, now 66 and retired, reflects: "It was a boom city that hadn't felt a recession since the war and thought it never would. And then all of a sudden in 1973 it happened...