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Hefner's pad on Chicago's North State Parkway has become a considerable tourist attraction, with guided tours available to anyone who has a minimum of pull. It is also the monument to a major American business success story. Unlike other Chicago businesses, the enterprise is not founded on steel, grain or transportation, but on a magazine. One of the great publishing successes since World War II, Playboy was started in 1953 with a 70,000 press run, now has a 4,000,000 circulation...
...book is the toaster. He stands out against the brash red of the fire engine--black uniform, arms akimbo--like a medieval executioner. His domestic life is equally grim. His wife is preoccupied with the puppets and parrots on their mammoth television screen. The two live in that great monument to sterility: a mod house. Streamlined furniture done up in cool blues and decorator yellows. The warmth of stainless steel...
...stunned Stoughton, but he quickly decided he should be with "the President." In a commandeered car, he raced to the plane. Afterward, he stayed on as a White House photographer, and then 18 months later, when the Kennedy family was going to England for the dedication of the Runnymede monument, he asked Johnson for permission to go. It would mean much to him, he explained, since he had been so close to the family...
Franklin D. Roosevelt has been dead for nearly 22 years, but it may take an other generation before anybody can decide on a suitable monument to him in Washington. The project began in 1959 with a nationwide competition that produced (out of 574 entries) a design by Sculptor Norman Hoberman for eight soaring concrete and marble tablets covered with Roosevelt quota tions. "Instant Stonehenge," hooted the critics, and the late President's family turned it down cold. Last week a second effort, by famed Architect Marcel Breuer, was brusquely and unanimous ly rejected - this time by the Washington Fine...
This portion of the act, an ugly monument to Congressional suspicion of scholarship, should follow the way of the disclaimer. Requiring young people whose education is supposed to be vital to the national defense to prove they are law-abiding and loyal can only lead to mutual distrust. If the government can't demonstrate some faith in students, they are not likely to show much confidence in return...