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...Dick Nixon the grocery clerk became Richard Nixon the politician, the gripes became political sore points. The beefy, "affable if sometimes bumptious" Don with the trademark ski-jump nose was a businessman of questionable ethics, apparently a family affliction. In the 1950s, he cashed in on his brother's vice-presidential status by opening Nixon's, a California fast-food chain that featured "Nixonburgers." When the chain developed a few weak links, Howard Hughes selflessly donated $205,000 to the cause, a loan that Don never repaid (a loan not unlike Colonel Khadaffi's contribution to Billy Carter's coffers...
...Like the ski parka and the ten-speed bike, multi-hued running shoes have become part of the trappings of the modern American, even if his or her idea of exercise consists only of getting up to turn on the television set to watch the Wide World of Sports. Bearing price tags that range up to $69, the new breed of cushioned rubber athletic shoe has trampled that familiar and often smelly old relic, the sneaker...
...estate, reportedly raising as much as $850,000 in cash. The Bronx district attorney heard of Jacobson's dealings and warned the Brooklyn prison, in vain, to keep a close watch on him. One of Jacobson's deals had been with DeRosa, who had bought a Vermont ski lodge from the former horse trainer in 1977. DeRosa, however, had fallen behind in his payments, and now it might have come time for Jacobson to ask for a favor. Police speculate that DeRosa, attaché case in hand, brought a gray suit to the House of Detention...
...telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether the vanity plates on her new BMW should say YOGURT or SUNDAE or MUFFIN. Stooped by his literacy and sorrow, Albert must listen to the Dynamo complain: "You don't play tennis, you don't snow-ski, you don't water-ski . . . Albert, we have nothing in common." The Dynamo later lets fly with some of her generation's ultimate obloquy: "You're so out of touch with your own feelings." Albert tries to unload some of his burdens upon his psychiatrist, a lulu...
...dinner and disco partner during his early-April polo visit to Palm Beach, then invited her to the Bahamas. The fetching honey blond, formerly married to Shipping Magnate Robert Wagner, says she is only a Kennedy family friend. As for the Prince of Wales, they met après ski in Gstaad. "I don't discuss royalty," says Austrian-born Helga, who also will not get precise about her "early 30s" vintage: "You know you don't ask a European woman...