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...spent months contemplating wind, fog and sun patterns on his 2½-acre plot before breaking ground. "If you have to spend time in a house, you might as well live in an environment that expands your mind the most," he explains. In fact, to ensure an expansive vista, he built 23 windows into his two-room home...
Chief is structured, rather cleverly, as a send-up of John Frankenheimer's Seven Days in May (1964), in which a sometimes violent plot was enacted within hailing distance of the White House. Here, the President (Dan Resin) is turning the Secretary of Health's cherished VISTA camps into prisons for political dissenters. "Not concentration camps," the President hastens to reassure his Secretary (Richard B. Shull). "Detention camps−this is America...
...swept skyward in his mad dashes round the world. Even when Nixon is earthbound in California, he often sets out for a spin along the roaring California freeways. The amateur psychologists who travel with Nixon insist that in part he is running from his problems, seeking some magical vista where solutions will appear. They never...
...manic heyday of protest, California students were among the most demonstrative. They burned down the Bank of America at Isla Vista and brought out the National Guard five times. Berkeley, cradle of Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement, was especially volatile. In 1968 the Berkeley authorities installed Willis A. Shotwell as a full-time disciplinarian to deal with demonstrators...
...year-old small-family firm, launched on $40 and the scrawny figure of a four-fingered mouse, has grown to encompass two of the country's major tourist attractions-Disneyland and Disney World; motion-picture-and television-producing Buena Vista studios; WED Enterprises, an engineering and design group that is fondly known as the "imagineers" and is responsible for many of the technological wonders of Disneyland and Disney World; several hotels, a travel service, a record company, a music-publishing corporation and a touring company; toy-manufacturing and merchandising operations; the governments of two legally constituted municipalities within Disney...