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...time, which was probably a year or two ago in some Georgetown parlor or Southhampton sun deck. Washington Socialite Barbara Howar would write a memoir of her already copiously documented career as a ringmaster of Washington's social capers, her marriage to- and divorce from- the heir to a construction fortune, her affairs and flirtations with the mighty, her fall from grace as a lady in waiting to the John son White House. At the same time, her constant companion, ex-Harper's Editor Willie Morris, would write a novel transparently based on the same material. Alas...
...with the highly-touted Alflorence Cheatham of Chicago, it aroused the ire of half of Cambridge -- a Pyrrhic political victory at best. In losing the City Manager fiasco, the CCA also lost its majority on the City Council. Councillor Henry F. Owens III, a black attorney and millionaire heir of a moving company, broke with his fellow CCA councillors over the selection of a replacement for two-year incumbent manager John Corcoran, a soft-spoken man who had worked his way up through the city hall bureaucracy and whom some councillors found difficult to work with. Owens favored a black...
Bocuse is also the heir to two centuries of family tradition. His ancestors began cooking for paying guests in 1765, on the same site in the Lyonnais village of Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or where his restaurant stands today. It is called simply "Paul Bocuse...
...with Libya. Later this year he is set to join Libya with Egypt in a full-scale political merger. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, whom Gaddafi detests, will be the President, and Cairo will be the capital. But Muammar Gaddafi will be the bankroller, the resident fury and the heir apparent...
These are among the experiences stressed in the "human-potential movement" (TIME, Nov. 9, 1970), which includes Esalen and other growth centers. But, writes May in his new book Power and Innocence, "the human-potential movement has fallen heir to the form of innocence prevalent in America, namely that we grow toward greater and greater moral perfection." Evil is present in everyone, along with good, May insists, and one should grow toward greater sensitivity to both...