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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lownes, a graduate of the University of Chicago, met Hefner at a party in 1954 and later gave him the idea for the Playboy clubs. Personally, he is an ultra-Playboy whose life-style even Hefner envies. As head of PEI's highly profitable club operations in England, Lownes has been living in a 42-room mansion near London and riding to work in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce. He skis in the Alps and cruises in the Mediterranean, often in the company of more than one beautiful woman. To support himself in this opulence, Lownes draws not only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Bunny Redux | 8/4/1975 | See Source »

...that its military dictatorship leans toward the left. It has nationalized several U.S. businesses, and has initiated reform programs to make Peru's economic life more independent. Peru is now under heavy pressure, perhaps even in danger of military attack. It shares borders with Chile. Bolivia and Brazil, all ultra-rightist regimes and all client states of the U.S. Also it has just been announced from Washington that the Administration is considering cutting off all arms aid to Peru, on the grounds that such action would balance the U.S. Congressional ban on arms aid to Chile...

Author: By George Wald, | Title: Chile: A critical look at American power | 4/8/1975 | See Source »

Chaotic Takeover. Some accounts from Portugal suggested that Spínola's role was not so passive. Apparently convinced that he could save his country from the chaos and Communist takeover he feared, Spínola reportedly plotted over open telephone lines with ultra-rightists to overthrow the government. Moderate officers, who might conceivably have joined the rebellion, were frightened off by the involvement of members of the old regime and feared that a rightist uprising would end up in a Chilean-style massacre of leftists and plunge the country into civil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Portugal: Squeezing Out the Moderates | 3/31/1975 | See Source »

...Ultra Secret, Winferbofham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

...Ultra Secret, Winferbofham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Best Sellers | 3/10/1975 | See Source »

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