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...sober efficiency typifies the proprietors of Mickey Mouse, it also marks the inventor of the Bunny, Chicago Correspondent Richard Woodbury reports. "I was surprised to find Hefner such a serious, business-minded person," he says. "We met in a second-floor conference room of the famous Playboy Mansion and talked for nearly two hours, and there were no girls or hedonists around...
Reports a recent visitor: "There are always people floating in and out of there-friends from Rye, people they know in New York." Contrary to some reports, Mitchell stays sober, never drinking liquor until evening and then consuming perhaps a couple more than his customary two predinner Scotches...
...merely pointing out the symptoms of the disease and stating that if they do not somehow disappear we will all go the way of Gibbon's Rome. He is exhorting various interests which have a vast influence on the nation's mores to adopt a more sober tone instead of exacerbating an already overheated situation. The particular value of the new conservative writers is that they themselves adopt a moderate and judicial tone of discussion (which Kristol, it must be added, sometimes violates) compared to the daily hysterics of New Left ideologues. Their goal is more often a clarification...
Ramrod-straight, sober-faced, patrician, calm: he was almost the Hollywood image of an American ambassador. For six exhausting years he exercised more authority than most of his diplomatic colleagues ever dreamed of possessing. Always immaculate, even in Saigon's long, humid afternoons, always self-possessed, even in the face of deliberate snubs from the South Viet Nam government, Ellsworth Bunker, for better or worse, was at the epicenter of the longest and most difficult war in American history...
...repression will create martyrs who will win public sympathy. But the new radicals have generally chosen what "Red Rudi" Dutschke, who led West Berlin's student rebellion in 1968 and is still active in the Movement, calls "the long march through the institutions." The archetype of the new, sober, methodical and coolly professional radical is Wolfgang Roth, 32, the ambitious, mod-haired leader of the openly Marxist Jusos (Young Socialists), who have virtually seized from within the left wing of Chancellor Willy Brandt's Social Democratic Party (TIME, April 23). Instead of only taking to the streets, French...