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...magazine opens with "Legendary Lives: In unique and varied ways they have extended the boundaries of experience." This is perhaps the most discomfiting segment in the issue; this is also the first and last time you are going to see the biographies of Clare Boothe Luce, Lucretia Mott and Janis Joplin on the same page. The next section, "A Share of the Power," includes portraits of women who have succeeded in traditionally masculine areas: politics, publishing, business, etc. The expressions of these women are frighteningly similar mixtures of ambition, confidence, and cold strength...
...Fred S. Mott...
...wanted to live heliotropically, with the bedrooms facing east and the cocktail and dining area facing west," complained Millionaire Stewart Mott, 38, describing his hopes to build the perfect Manhattan home. Begun three years ago atop the 54th floor of a new apartment building, the four-story penthouse was to include a solarium kitchen, a library, pool, four bedrooms, office space for up to seven secretaries, a multilevel grand salon and more than 1,500 sq. ft. of terrace for Mott's main passion: organic vegetable gardening. The fastest-growing item at Mott's midtown Xanadu, however...
...person who quickly saw the implications of the "indirect" contribution was Stewart Mott, 38, the wealthy General Motors heir who gave $725,000 to Democratic Candidate George McGovern in 1972. Mott said that he might spend $50,000 or $100,000 in support of certain congressional candidates, and that he might start a massive media campaign for former Senator Eugene McCarthy, who is running as an independent. As it happens, McCarthy was a party to the suit that prompted last week's ruling by the court...
...Morris Mott, the difficulty was focusing on one pursuit. "When practicing, I'd be thinking of writing a paper," he says. "When I was in class, I'd be thinking of being on the ice. It took me about four years to work...