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Atop a bluff ten miles outside Sacramento sits California's opulent new Governor's mansion. When former Governor Ronald Reagan called for its construction a decade ago, he admonished his bureaucracy to design a home that symbolized the bustle and promise of America's fastest-growing state. Completed three years ago, the residence does indeed capture California's quicksilver suburbanty. It has expansive verandas, teakwood floors, eight bathrooms and a caretaker assigned to collect golf balls sliced off the fairway of a nearby country club...
Federal investigators have managed to piece together only a partial picture of his double-dealing after about 1½ years of digging. Some information has come from electronic surveillance of Seoul's Blue House, the executive mansion of the President of South Korea. Another source has been Kim Hyung Wook, who headed the Korean Central Intelligence Agency from 1963 to 1969, and has been a political refugee in the U.S. since 1973. Last week Kim testified before the House Subcommittee on International Organizations, chaired by Democrat Donald M. Fraser...
...year-old blonde, the text explains that she has landed a top role, "that of Hef's more-than-occasional companion." Tax man, how would you score that? Business promotion? In fact, one of Playboy's problems is its narcissistic photographic preoccupation with Hefner's Playboy mansion, which must do untold damage to his assumed reputation for sophistication. Surrounded by young beauties, he looks a dour sybarite Square. Hefner is in the business of selling fantasies; he has made the mistake of trying to live his. Enter Rival Guccione. who does not show his readers...
Guccione has his office in an expensively tacky off-Fifth Avenue mansion in New York City, full of mirrored walls, oversized candelabra and a gilded piano that Liberace might envy. The furnishings look as if they came intact from a Neapolitan bordello, but they actually came from Judy Garland's estate, as did the house. Guccione, in well-coiffed hair, is obviously more concerned with his own appearance than his apartment's: he wears a shirt open to his hairy chest, against which bobble necklaces of large gold medallions. No one believed him seven years ago when...
...immediate consequence of his arrest was a phone call from his older brother, then a rising young politician headed eventually for the governor's mansion. The Richmond papers had picked the Evans name out of the wire story on the Harvard violence, and his brother wanted to know why Mac was involved. The arrest of his brother didn't hurt Lester Evans politically; he became lieutenant governor and would certainly have made it at least to the governor's chair. But he developed a brain tumor that killed him in office. His brother's experience, as well as his father...