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...campaign, a highly visible front runner might feel vulnerable to the dangers of peaking too early and of making mistakes. "Not at all," Muskie says. "Now I have an enormous sense of independence. Now I don't have to strive to get attention, to shout and resort to gimmicks. It's so much easier to be myself. It's a question of style. I like to do things in a quieter, more meaningful way. Now I can do things...
Mindful of Gagosian's success, other innkeepers are moving away from the motel industry's tradition of standardized shelter. Holiday Inns, for example, is planning an elaborate motel-resort at Hialeah near Miami. But Gagosian, who well remembers his hard life on the construction crew, has built a margin of safety into his luxury empire. "If times should get really bad in the economy," he says, "there is not a room in our chain that we couldn't rent for $8-and pay our expenses at 70% occupancy...
...resort of Aspen, Colo., is getting so spoiled by runaway commercialism that Author Hunter Thompson (Hell's Angels), who calls himself "a foul-mouthed outlaw journalist," figured that a shrill anti-progress campaign might just get him elected sheriff of Pitkin County. "Sod the streets, ban autos!" he cried. "Savagely harass land rapists!" By describing the job as "main pig," the shaved-skull exponent of "freak power" put off the conservative electorate, but the ecology issue is so big in Aspen that according to unofficial tabulations, Thompson lost by only 455 votes...
...according to the strict, old rules. Assistant Labor Secretary Jerome Rosow points out that "the American workingman has lost relative class status with the growth of higher education. All blue collar workers, skilled or not, have been denigrated so badly, so harshly, that their jobs have become a last resort instead of decent, respected careers. Fathers hesitate?and even apologize?for their occupation instead of holding it up as an aspiration for their own sons...
...with loss of the money and stock held for them by brokerage houses that have gone to the brink of insolvency-or fell over it. Repeatedly, the financial community has prevented disaster by rounding up new capital for the failing firm, arranging a shotgun merger or, as a last resort, ransoming customers' stock by making payments out of a $55 million New York Stock Exchange trust fund. Last week Wall Street managed the most dramatic rescue yet, but in doing so apparently exhausted its resources for continuing the cliff-hanger...