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When Martha Mitchell's runaway tongue provoked demands that Husband John silence her (TIME, Dec. 5), the Attorney General responded with the bemused suggestion that she speak henceforth in Swahili. Last week, his glacial restraint thawed by two Scotch-and-waters and the gentle prodding of Kandy Stroud, an attractive blonde reporter for Women's Wear Daily, John Mitchell topped even Martha at her loquacious best...
...those years that Unruh earned an unsavory public reputation as an arrogant political schemer. First there was his image: he favored electric-blue suits and fat cigars and carried as much as 290 Ibs. on his 5-ft. 9-in. frame. He wolfed down gargantuan meals and gulped down Scotch, haughtily killed bills, demanded favors from lobbyists, made or broke political careers with a word. One night in 1963, he invoked an obscure parliamentary procedure to have the Republican assemblymen opposing him on a bill locked up for nearly 23 hours in the assembly chambers. His last name (pronounced...
...Buddha. It was around 1963 that Unruh began to redefine himself. After a political cartoon pictured him as a fat Buddha, he abruptly cut out starch and Scotch and in four months took off 100 Ibs. The effort was a good example of his will. A stutterer as a boy, he overcame his affliction by forcing himself to deliver class talks and joining the debating team. In 1959, when he saw a picture of himself puffing a cigar like Boss Tweed, he stopped smoking on the spot. Until last year, he spoke with a lisp; he had that corrected...
...banned, including street names. Tripoli hotels have had to buy new towels and table napkins to replace the old ones, which had English or Italian on them. Pork has been banned; so has alcohol (except for embassies and oil workers deep in the desert). A bootleg bottle of Scotch brings $20 and the risk of arrest...
...become so compulsive that he would place bets on both competing teams are well behind him, but he still takes a shot at the Las Vegas slot machines now and again. Gould remains an energetic sports freak, and a picture of New York Knickerbocker Star Willis Reed is Scotch-taped to his bedroom wall. His conversation is salted with sports slang and four-letter words. He has taken up karate and given up many of the rich foods that he and Barbra used to enjoy (particularly Chinese food and coffee ice cream). He constantly munches sunflower seeds. Director Dick Rush...