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...spawned and bred in our very own Cambridge, Mass., holds a special place. The story is of how he dropped out of Swarthmore three years ago to single-handedly set up his own magazine of rock, Crawdaddy!, and went on to establish it briefly in all its tacky splendor as the finest underground publication of its kind...
...whatever income he can collect from cattle breeding and tourists to pursue his passion: personally blasting a larger-than-Rushmore likeness of Chief Crazy Horse out of a South Dakota mountain. A fortune from manufacturing has liberated Oklahoma's John Zink, a Hemingwayesque character who thrives in feudal splendor on a 10,000-acre ranch near Tulsa. Zink used to greet guests by firing a revolver into the beams of his baronial office, but stopped doing so when a ricochet almost hit his secretary. One night, when a Supreme Court Justice came to visit, Zink released a coon...
...mass of Europeans, he nonetheless registered impressively with their heads of government. In eight days of confrontations with them, he was assured and well-informed, displaying modesty and a hard intelligence, common sense and a very uncommon determination. There were no grand new visions or invocations of ancient splendor. Nixon's was an understated performance, and it was successful exactly for that reason. He went to listen to Europe's leaders, and there is no more popular conversationalist than a good listener...
...While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight to $3,750. The revelers arrive in psychedelic splendor, shed most of their clothes during the night, and emerge in the early morning, after hours of dancing, in bikinis, swimming trunks and sarongs...
...treks into the remotest regions of the Himalayas. His book, Himalayan Art, has just been published by UNESCO, the first volume in its Art Books series. It contains a photographic record (see color opposite) that for the first time reveals Himalayan painting and sculpture in all its sequestered splendor...