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Kennedy went into the debates as an underdog to Nixon. The boyish-looking Senator was widely seen as an attractive but inexperienced and unpresidential lightweight. Nixon had hoped to show him up as a rich political playboy. But the self-assured Kennedy tossed off facts and statistics with ease, demonstrating that he was every bit as knowledgeable as his opponent...
Perine's first time-sharing resort was a luxury campsite near Palm Springs, Calif.: by now, 2,500 customers have paid $9 million for camping site shares, giving them 45 days annually for 99 years. A Perine-organized time-sharing program at the 1,400-acre Playboy Resort & Country Club in Lake Geneva, Wis., is also beginning to pay off: the financially troubled resort will begin its winter season with the highest occupancy rate in its eight-year history...
...shareowners, a time-sharing vacation can offer the advantages of a vacation home without the large initial investment or steady upkeep. At the Playboy resort, for example, Larry Leven, a $35,000-a-year Chicago insurance executive, and his family recently spent a week in a condominium that normally costs $135 a day. As owners of a 40-year, $7,050 share at the resort, they only paid an $18 per diem charge...
...executive ladder, Robert A. Lutz, the president of German Ford, cuts a rather exotic figure. He wears elegant London-made suits and colorful shirts, rides motorcycles, collects and personally restores old cars, and speaks provocatively enough to have rated a full-length interview in the May German edition of Playboy (sample quote: "There is nothing rational about the automobile industry. There is no other aspect of business that depends so much on psychology, prejudice and image"). Now the 44-year-old Lutz is moving into a new job: last week, he was appointed corporate vice president in charge of Ford...
Both Henry's character and his situation are fraught with parlous uncertainties. He has been a playboy prince who has boozed it up in the taverns with Falstaff. Does he possess the mettle for kingship? His men have divided hearts about the war in France. He must inspire them with "a little touch of Harry in the night." Before Agincourt he soliloquizes over the crushing burdens and terrible loneliness of royalty ("Upon the King! Let us our lives, our souls ... our children and our sins lay on the King! We must bear...