Word: playboy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many observers in Cambridge believe that all Harvard men should be "intellectual." They point out that the "playboy" is a dying cause that went out with the Gold Coast and postwar Radcliffe, and crusade to exterminate the last real menace to the Harvard community, the "jock." He's a crude, embarrassingly inept social thing in an HAA sweat shirt--a C student at best, these people maintain, as they request more scholarly replacements to beef up the total intellectual output of the College. The most common disagreement is with the admissions policies of the University, which, they say, "have been...
Trujillo Jr., 32, one of Trujillo's four acknowledged offspring. A polo-loving playboy, his main claim to fame until now was flunking out of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth while AWOL in pursuit (despite a wife and six children) of Kim Novak and Zsa Zsa Gabor (to whom he gave a $5,500 Mercedes-Benz, a $17,000 chinchilla coat). Commissioned by Daddy as an army colonel at the age of three and promoted to brigadier general at nine, Ramfis has little in his record to suggest the tenacity and talent needed...
...away a happy tear, the man of the hour was Tony Armstrong-Jones, the onetime bohemian and free-lancing photographer, who until only recently has had his critics. Once the bloom was off the groom, Britain's royalty-revering public made it plain that it was watching ex-Playboy Tony with a tolerant but suspicious eye, intent on making sure he did right by their Meg. Trouble was, there was little publicly that he could do. Royal protocol made working for a living unthinkable, and Tony had no wealth of his own, so Parliament upped his wife...
What will come next in the Dominican Republic, no one can say. The ranks of the politically able, thinned by assassination, limit the possibilities somewhat; but anything from invasion by Cubans to further repression by the Trujillo dynasty might happen. Figurehead president and without the ruthlessness of Trujillo, his playboy son will probably not be able to resist the wave of rebellion which has been sweeping Latin American dictatorships...
Luxuriantly bearded Playboy Nubar Gulbenkian, 64, counts his fortune in the millions, not the billions, rates as a bush leaguer next to his father, the late oil-rich Calouste ("Mr. Five Percent...