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...saltwater man," and in a relatively short span of time has picked up two seaside abodes in Florida, another in California, as well as retaining his leasehold on the old family manse in Whittier, Calif. While none of the four dwellings is perhaps fit for a king, the three recent acquisitions are certainly suitable to the style of a First Family, with all that that entails. How in the world does Nixon meet those monthly mortgage bills on a salary of only $200,000 a year...
...getting an estimated $75,000 golf course free. Local firms are building the small course (four greens, seven tees just behind the villa's swimming pool) at their own expense. At the same time, Nixon is adding his own distinctive touches to enhance the comforts of the house. Recent visitors noticed a new bulletproof glass wall beside the swimming pool and a sound system to soothe the presidential nerves with the piped-in music of Mantovani and Kostelanetz. And he has already had some luck: his post-purchase survey of the land showed that...
...theologian but a publicist of theology. His pace took its toll in personal as well as intellectual terms. He admitted at one point that he had become an alcoholic. He chain-smoked so frantically that he sometimes had two or three cigarettes going at the same time. But in recent years he had quit both alcohol and tobacco cold...
...other was his 20-year-old eldest son, James Jr., who shot himself in a New York hotel in 1966. Not long after that tragedy, Pike began involving himself in psychic research and spiritualism. His efforts to reach his dead son were unabashedly and painfully recorded in his most recent book, The Other Side, which he wrote with Diane Kennedy, later to be his third wife...
...Editor" Fraser, a Scottish journalist, has struck upon a splendidly entertaining and relatively effortless way of replaying some of those military histories that have so proliferated in recent years, in this case a fine review of the Afghan Wars by British Barrister-Author Patrick Macrory called The Fierce Pawns. No satirist could have invented a scene as bizarre as Afghanistan in 1841, or one so suited to showing the military mind at its silliest...