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Despite the ethnic theme, the whole affair will be a showcase of the nation's wealthiest men. Nearly all of Nixon's friends with big bank accounts will be there, including his Florida neighbor Bebe Rebozo, Chicago Insurance Tycoon and Republican Campaign Contributor W. Clement Stone, and Robert Abplanalp, a manufacturer of aerosol valves. It will be a celebration of Middle America and the successful men it has produced. For those taking part, it will be a ritual of satisfaction, a three-day dance to affluence and the American dream...
Larry Bryggman gives Kurt a set of bobbing eyebrows and poses which sometimes seem too stiff, too prolonged even for a tycoon from the age of Rockefeller. At times his politeness grows strident and reveals the exploiter that lurks beneath, but never quite clearly enough...
Screams. Then Burt Zien, the Milwaukee plumbing and heating tycoon who had organized the affair, took over. "Okay, you fellas know why you're here," he began. He painted a sorry picture of McGovern's finances and stepped up the pressure: "He needs money fast?very fast. He has to tie down television time and pay travel bills. Soliciting pledges through the mail and collecting them takes too much time. What we want you to do is to loan McGovern money now. This will probably be the least-secured loan you'll ever make. There's no collateral...
EQUALLY popular with tourists and Parisians, Le Drugstore, located near the Arc de Triomphe on the Champs-Elysées, was as zany a bit of pseudo Americana abroad as a Frenchman could have conceived. Opened by Advertising Tycoon Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet in 1958, Le Drugstore offered an expensive boutique, books and magazines, a restaurant that served hamburgers and banana splits, and a department for prescription drugs. The formula worked so well that Paris soon had a flock of "Drugstores...
DECODOVA AND DANA MUSEUM Turreted former mansion of Somerville glass tycoon, now one of the best places to view contemporary American Art. Tues-Sat, 10-5; Sun, 1:30 to 5. Ducondova Collection thru Nov. 15, A comprehensive collection of contemporary...