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...suite hotel, golf course, statuary in the gardens. Tennis Pro Pancho Gonzales on the courts, and the word PEACE on all of the matchbooks. The champagne, the swimming, the golf and the jet were all provided free, at a cost of more than $100,000, by handsome A. & P. Heir George Huntington Hartford II, 50, a shy, mystical and misty multi-millionaire who is devoting himself to the arduous job of getting poor quick in his search for a satisfying life...
...keystone of the House of Rothschild but the actual edifice: only sons can be partners. The Italian and German banking houses ceased in the 19th century not from lack of shrewdness but from lack of sons. But in France, there has been no lack of sons; the current heir is Guy, who heads what is still the largest private bank in France...
...local officials had the temerity to question their story, the teary-eyed former Mr. Universe fumed: "I am very hurt. Jaynie doesn't need publicity. It's a miracle this girl is living today." The war of innuendo between West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his perennial heir apparent. Vice Chancellor and Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, raged on. Five weeks after Erhard marked Adenauer's 86th birthday with the gift of a stone bench (which he carefully specified was not intended for use in retirement), Adenauer paid his second visit to the Economics Ministry in twelve years...
When Playboy Publisher Hugh M. Hefner and Playboy Huntington Hartford came onstage last summer with their new show-business magazines, Hefner airily dismissed the A. & P. heir as a competitor. "I don't think Hartford would be too worried if I decided to put out a chain of supermarkets," said he. As a matter of fact, Hartford had never worried about the affairs of the A. & P., and last week it turned out that he had little cause to worry about Hefner's decision to put out a magazine. For a bargain-basement price (some $250,000), Hartford...
...program is just such a challenge to their way of thinking. He believes that this country must be far more perceptive in dealing with domestic and foreign problems than it has been, precisely because its self-image has been wrong since the War. It conceived itself as the undisputed heir to Western hegemony. It was not. In Joseph Kraft's phrase, in the current Harper's, this is the "myth of the American century." Moreover, the country has failed to institutionalize social and economic changes, so as to keep democracy up-to-date...