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Nobody in America survives, with the exception of 14 people in millionaire Vance Farr's plush fallout shelter. They form a fascinating group. With Farr himself, there is his alcoholic wife; a Jewish physicist; Farr's lovely daughter; a Japanese engineer; a Chinese 'Cliffie; an electric company meter-reader; a Negro house man and his lovely daughter (a Vassar graduate); Farr's latest mistress, her real lover--the list continues, and continues. Not content with saving a handful of people Wylie insists on a whole regiment. Indeed he has little choice: with so many themes to handle, he needs...
...Playboy Prince. Abdul Rahman was the seventh son of his father's sixth wife and, with his 44 brothers and sisters, lived the plush life befitting the offspring of the Sultan of Kedah. His Siamese mother demanded that he be carried to school on the shoulders of a retainer, and though he was an indifferent student, his royal birth won him a scholarship to Cambridge, where he began to read law. But the Tunku skipped most of his lectures, seldom missed a tea or dinner-dance, distinguished himself mainly by picking up 28 traffic violations in his silver Riley...
...Boston's newest medical building on Emerson Place last week, they were settling into plush offices with the ostentatious title "International Federation for Internal Freedom'' on the door. They sounded as euphoric as any of their experimental subjects still under the influence of psilocybin, their favorite "consciousness-expanding" drug. Said Alpert, who has taken the drug himself 50 times: "Two years ago, dismissal from Harvard would have frightened me very much. But now, with deeper, intuitive understanding of myself, I'm perfectly comfortable." Said Leary: "This is much more important than Harvard...
...From his plush refuge in suburban Madrid, onetime Argentine Strongman Juan Peron, 67, last fall penned a petition to the Bishop of Madrid, begging remission of his 1955 excommunication, which followed many outrages against the church, climaxed by his expulsion of two Catholic prelates from Argentina. To the Vatican went Peron's appeal, accompanied by a recommendation from the bishop which convinced the Holy See that here was a true repentant. The request was approved, and the black sheep is back in the fold...
...older and definitely delinquent youths, New York State set up a special center at Middletown. It was no plush country cottage, and the regimen was deliberately kept rugged to make sure the boys would not get too relaxed or get to like it. They met five times a week in groups of ten. "It became almost a matter of course," reported Dr. Girard H. Franklin, "for them to discuss a mother's prostitution, a father's failures, their own homosexual fantasies or experiences. Their ability to accept and understand these highly anxiety-provoking phenomena was greatly aided...