Word: pyramided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this for Shaun, though. He has a good, sidelong sense of humor ("There's always a job for me on The $20,000 Pyramid") and a startling foundation of hard sense. "I'm being sold from here to Tim-buctoo," he admits. "But I'm doing the selling." He watched the jet-stream parabola traced by the career of his half brother David Cassidy and learned some hard lessons. "The average length of a career like mine is five years...
...Executive order, responsibility for CIA and other intelligence operations is clearly lodged with the President and his top aides. Presidential passing of the buck for any unsavory covert activities will now be much harder, if not impossible. The National Security Council remains at the top of the intelligence pyramid. Two of its committees, set up last year by NSC Director Zbigniew Brzezinski, will have expanded powers. The Policy Review Committee will continually examine all intelligence operations. Chaired by Turner, the committee will include the Vice President; the Secretaries of State, Treasury and Defense; the National Security Adviser; and the Chairman...
...both BEAT and marriage by Reynolds, who pretends a conversion of his own in order to expose the shallowness of the movement. The Ritchie-Bernstein version of an est seminar is done with marvelous malice, but it is not their only target. Along the way they take on rolfing, pyramid power and even something called movagenics, which invites its adepts to drop down on all fours and crawl around looking for their lost center of consciousness as if it were a cuff link that had rolled under the bed. Indeed, the movie's funniest moment occurs when Robert Preston...
Tomorrow--Tom Snyder, Nikki Seligman, Rich "Rock Caps" Weisman and Steve Schorr on Ch. 4 at 1 a.m. $20,000 Pyramid--Harvard student wins...
Like father, like son-usually, perhaps, but not in the Hunt family. The late Haroldson Lafayette Hunt, who parlayed a winning poker hand into a pyramid of oil wells, was eccentric even for a self-made billionaire. Before he died in November 1974, Hunt became a legend for his backing of ultra-right-wing causes, his penny-pinching (he often carried his lunch in a brown paper bag) and his health faddism (he used to crawl around his Dallas mansion on all fours for exercise). The youngest of his five sons, Ray Hunt, 34, is quiet almost to the point...