Word: hugh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...letter by CCSR chairman Hugh Calkins '45, the Corporation last week explained the reasons for the votes. Stating that a halt on sales to the South African government would also prohibit sales to hospitals and schools, the letter argues that these resolutions would amount to "a boycott that should be a matter for foreign policy and should be applied uniformly to all commercial relationships...
This largely buried argument is all that connects the book's welter of anecdotes. A Chicago teen-ager named Harold Rubin is limned practicing self-abuse over photographs of nude women. He is joined in the narrative by the newly married Hugh Hefner, who wanders the streets and gazes at apartment windows where women might appear. Hefner makes room later for John Bullaro, a married Los Angeles insurance executive who bicycles to Venice Beach on Sundays to ogle sunbathers...
...instance, did Nude Model Diane Webber's great-great-grandmother die? (An Indian shot her in the back.) Did General Custer carry life insurance into the battle of Little Big Horn? (Yes, a $5,000 policy with New York Life.) What covered the circular bed in Hugh Hefner's private DC-9? (A coverlet made of Tasmanian opossum...
...Hugh Sidey may have been joking when he suggested Walter Cronkite as a possible President [March 31], but it's no joke. Either party could nominate Cronkite and win. He knows more about national and international problems than any other two candidates put together, and, as a duty, I think he would accept the miserable...
...Government undermines the freedom and incentives that make capitalism so productive. Managers see themselves as Prometheus bound, unable to launch a new product or finance research into a tempting field without completing a fat book of federal forms and paying exorbitant, sometimes needless expenses. Complains Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke: "We sit here in management meetings deciding on projects that may cost hundreds of millions of dollars. But we do not know what the Government regulations will be for pricing, importing, entitlements, allocations...