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TAXES. Former Senator John Williams, denouncer of Bobby Baker for influence peddling, sponsored a tax-bill amendment that allowed a $2.1 million writeoff for Xanadu, a family estate in Cuba that was confiscated by Castro. Further, say the Raiders, the company and family properties in Delaware are undervalued for tax purposes. Irenée Jr. says that he knows nothing about any contacts made with Senator Williams in the family's behalf. To the other point, Vice President Irving Shapiro, the company's first Jewish director, replies: "If the accusation is that Du Pont is chiseling on existing...
...house, a few hundred feet away, the host watches the Connecticut sky display its sense of occasion by turning a fulgid, Turneresque pink. Philip Johnson, architect and art collector, scans his horizon with pleasure as if the sunset, too, were a commissioned work. The inauguration of his own special Xanadu is nearly over...
...foam building belongs in the suburbs of Xanadu. Being in it is like being swallowed by Moby Dick, perhaps. There is no distinction between ceiling and walls, the texture is amorphous whiteness and there are no easy-to-understand geometric forms...
WELCOME TO XANADU by Nathaniel Benchley. 304 pages. Atheneum...
Welcome to Xanadu is a typical new thriller, as was John Fowles's The Collector. The plot is of the old-fashioned boy-terrorizes-girl variety-but with a psychotic twist added. Leonard Hatch, a self-styled poet spouting Nietzsche, comes down out of the New Mexico mountains, kidnaps a tomboyish 16-year-old farm girl and carries her back to his retreat in the hills. Soon, one learns that he is a fugitive from a mental institution, suffering from the endemic new thriller malady: an acute case of mothering so smothering that he is impotent...