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...spent on security and other official arrangements for the two estates. Last week the White House is sued a privately produced report on the complex transactions by which the houses were financed. It showed a President heavily dependent on two millionaires-Robert H. Abplanalp, the inventor of the aerosol-spray valve, and Miami Entrepreneur Charles G. ("Bebe") Rebozo. While buttressing White House assertions that nothing illegal had occurred, the statement raised anew the propriety of Nixon's large (and secret) indebtedness to his friends...
...from a friendly industrialist in connection with the purchase; that Nixon bought the property and later sold an interest in part of it to a still unnamed investment company; and that he ultimately made a good deal for himself. The industrialist-lender was Robert Abplanalp, the aerosol spray-valve tycoon. Still another of Nixon's helpful millionaire friends, C. Arnholt Smith, gained unwonted attention last week. He was in deep trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Internal Revenue Service (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS...
...tinkering. Abplanalp studied engineering at Villanova, but dropped out to open his own machine shop. After he returned from World War II to find his shop had fallen $10,000 in debt, he slowly began to work his way out. One day, a customer brought in an aerosol spray can with an expensive but unreliable valve that had leaked. Abplanalp began thinking of ways to solve the problem, and eventually designed a new, less leak-prone valve...
Others suggested inflating a balloon to shade the craft, or spray painting the affected area. Eventually, NASA seemed to be settling on a different solution: the astronauts would try to shield Skylab with a tissue-thin, aluminized sail-like sheet of Mylar, a plastic film...
...Sandy Pinches of the East Lansing center wholeheartedly advocates force: "A karate chop to the Adam's apple can kill a guy. Or you can stomp down with your heels on his shins-rip out his skin there or smash his instep." In Washington, the center recommends carrying spray oven cleaners, plastic lemons for squirting juice or ammonia, lighted cigarettes ("smash out in eye"), or corkscrews ("jab quickly and directly, then twist...