Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reportage for our fourth Ho cover turned up another bit of intelligence that holds particular interest for us. Whenever Ho was in Kunming during World War II, he visited the U.S. Office of War Information. His request: TIME, the Weekly News magazine. Later from Communist sources, we heard that he was especially pleased by our first cover portrait, by Boris Chaliapin, which depicted him as a lean and hot-eyed fanatic - quite unlike the benevolent fatherly image projected by Hanoi...
...ways than one. Consider the ledgerdemain of the San Clemente spread. The price for the estate of 21 acres, including the large, Spanish-style villa now known familiarly as White House West, was $1.4 million. The terms were $400,000 down and $100,000 per year, plus 7½% interest per year on the initial outstanding debt of $1,000,000. The sale called for the principal to be paid off within five years. Normally, such an undertaking would require prodigious amounts of cash: annual payments of $175,000 for five years and then a liquidating wallop payout...
...seaside acres of the estate and the house. This gives him only one-fifth of the property, and only one-fifth of the down payment and maintenance charges to cope with personally. His portion of the down payment was $80,000, the principal is $20,000 annually and the interest is $15,000 per year. In addition, the President exercised an option to buy the remaining four-fifths of the surrounding grounds. This was done for him by a trustee, the Title Insurance and Trust Co. of Los Angeles. The trustee pays for the remaining four-fifths with...
Condon's great and nourishing strength has always been his mania for mania. The mushy midsection of the human-behavior range has no interest for him, and ordinary psychosis not much more. What grips his imagination, and shakes it till splendid words fall out, is the tic of a human bomb. In one novel, a beautiful woman feeds for 20 years on the high-held hope that she will one day, somehow, be able to chop up her lover with a machete. In another, a man sets out, in more sinister fashion, to learn by heart every last scrap...
Mile High at first seems a normal Condon fancy. After growing up in turn-of-the-century New York with a good head for compound interest and the delicate ways in which money and muscle affect politics. Eddie West, the son of an Irish immigrant, brings about Prohibition singlehanded. His reason for doing so is that Prohibition will provide business opportunities. This is instantly understood by "the 18 greediest, the seven most hypocritical and the five wealthiest families in the country." to whom he goes for financing. It is also understood by an elderly and dignified Sicilian, who agrees that...