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When Hans Kung arrived last week for his first lecture after the University of T??bingen's holiday break, the classroom was jammed with 300 students and onlookers. Another 300 next door listened in via loudspeaker. The Vatican may have declared him unfit to be considered a Roman Catholic theologian, but Father Kung was back at his T??bingen lectern, at which he has taught since 1960 and now occupies as bestselling author, West German celebrity and a focus of Catholic theological rebellion...
Gloats the slick monthly Washingtonian in a promotional brochure: "In most major cities, you see street vendors selling hot dogs, peanuts or ice cream. In Washington there is a pushcart vendor selling quiche Lorraine, pát??, hummus and fine cheeses. But that's the way it is in Washington?expensive tastes and the money to afford them...
...outsiders find rather cloying. Temp is "Ole Simon," as in Simon Legree; Nancy is "Den Mother"; Joe Raff is "T??o Pepe"); Judy is "Kid Chocolate"; and Bone, naturally, is "Billy Bones." Home is headquarters, and headquarters is home: Villa Fielding, a $400,000 estate in the beach resort of Formentor, a 1½-hour drive across Majorca from Palma, the Spanish island's capital. The staff spends anywhere from two to seven months a year on the road, inspecting new hotels and restaurants, revisiting those already mentioned in the guide. When a trip is in the offing, Villa Fielding becomes...
...liquor, including pisco from Peru, ouzo from Greece, Indonesian arrack, Georgia moonshine from the U.S. and a 140-proof Italian pine liquor, which Fielding says is "really too strong to drink." The basement larder is packed with imported delicacies: pheasant in Burgundy jelly, smoked swordfish, Scotch grouse pât??, quail eggs, Norwegian kippers, whole lychees, albacore tuna from Oregon...
Onassis' canny business dealings have helped fuel such sentiments. In 1952, he alienated his friend Prince Rainier of Monaco by quietly buying up a majority interest in the Sociét?? des Bains de Mer, which runs the Monte Carlo Casino. His reason: he had been snubbed in his search for office space. When he finally sold his interest back to Rainier, he cleared $5,000,000. In a 1954 attempt to monopolize the Saudi Arabian oil market, he made a deal with King Saud that would have given him exclusive rights to ship that country's petroleum. He thus brought...