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...been rediscovered. Ten years ago, Prince Alexis ("Obie") Obolensky, a member of the jet set and a shrewd entrepreneur, set out to make backgammon a popular game. Phase 1 of his elaborate strategy was to exploit backgammon's snob appeal. He haunted the posh watering places from Palm Beach to Gstaad, talking up the game. "I made people think they should be doing it, that only the best people were involved," he recalls. "We brought in snobbism. Only in America can that kind of thing be done...
...campaign for Hubert Humphrey, but his hopes there never materialized. Annoyed, Sinatra turned to the Republicans and campaigned for Ronald Reagan in 1970. Through Reagan's graces Sinatra came to know Spiro Agnew. Cordial friends ever since, Agnew frequently spends long weekends at Sinatra's place in Palm Springs. The Vice President honored Sinatra in January 1971 by flying to Palm Springs for the dedication of the Martin Anthony Sinatra Medical Education Center, Sinatra's monument to his father. Later, while on a good-will tour, Agnew discovered pal Sinatra waiting for him in Portugal. Last summer...
...careful landscaping. At Oak Ridge, a 950-home park near Syracuse, N.Y., the manager arranges barbecues, dances, clambakes, wine tastings and ice-skating parties. At a park near St. Paul, Minn., mobile homes are stacked, apartment-style, on space-saving three-story pads. The Colony, under construction at Palm Springs, Calif., will have a surrounding wall of imported Mexican stone, a sauna, gymnasium, swimming pool, golf course, individual wine cellars, a Rolls-Royce shuttle to the Palm Springs airport and a security system ("an increasingly important attraction," says Carlsberg) with round-the-clock guards and its own radar network...
...Alumni Bulletin as being president of this company, vice-president of that company, member of the board here, and director of the corporation there. Under this listing is a short account of just what this man does during the year. We find that he follows the sun to Palm Beach during the winter months, follows the sun to Pine Valley during the spring months, follows the shade to Camden, Maine, during the summer months, and follows the tourist guides in Europe during the cool months of autumn, And he always has. Does it pay this man to have his name...
...anything, it seemed to be less business than usual in official Washington. The President was in Key Biscayne, Fla., for most of the week. Henry Kissinger, his own game plan in disarray, went to a Washington Redskins football game, then flew to Palm Springs, Calif., for a New Year's vacation. There, at one point, photographers discovered him strolling with Hollywood Executive Bob Evans. Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, was "on leave," and outgoing Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird was in Hawaii saying farewell to the Pacific Command. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler was on a week...