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Flying High. Part of the problem is that John King has become rich quickly in a complicated, volatile business -and has the image of an archetypical wheeler-dealer. He wears flashy, monogrammed boots and shirts and owns 3,000 pairs of gold cuff links. He uses a fleet of airplanes as other men use taxis, and collects friends and acquaintances in high places. A space buff, he has put two former astronauts, Walter Schirra and Frank Borman, in top positions in his companies. King is a lover of the West; he owns an ostentatious ranch outside Denver, which he leases...
...chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff has traditionally belonged to the Army. Four of the six men to serve as chairman since the post was created in 1949 have been Army men, including General Earle Wheeler, who has held the post for the past six years. Only one has been an Air Force man, only one an admiral. Now the Navy is going to be in command again. Upon Wheeler's retirement this week, the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Thomas Moorer, 58, will take over as chairman...
...green-stained wrist has become a mark of distinction. Among the wearers are the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Lord Snowdon, the Marquess of Bath (who thoughtfully sells the bracelets to sightseers at a souvenir stand outside his castle), Pierre Cardin, Coco Chanel and Stavros Niarchos. Sir John Wheeler-Bennett, the eminent historian, has been wearing his bracelet for three or four years and says its effects are "frightfully good." He admits that his wrist turns green, but then "all that is part of the juju, what?" Lanning Roper, garden editor of London's Sunday Times, another believer...
...economic pinch. The Boeing Co. has laid off 22,000 workers in the Puget Sound area since January, plans to trim its pay roll from a 1968 high of 101,000 to 45.000 by the end of this year. One of those affected by the cutback, Engineer George Wheeler, recently sold his $28,-000 house in Seattle, and plans to move into a $40-a-month apartment in his native state of Wyoming where he hopes to teach. Electronics firms have laid off 5% of their personnel in Massachusetts. William Kukers, 52, lost his $20,000-a-year...
...after North Korea shot down an unarmed U.S. EC-121 reconnaissance plane early in the Nixon Administration, is responsible for drawing up contingency plans whenever foreign crisis threatens. Headed by White House Foreign Affairs Adviser Henry Kissinger, it includes CIA Chief Richard Helms and Joint Chiefs Chairman General Earle Wheeler. On April 23, the group drafted a set of four options for the President: 1) massive military aid to Cambodia; 2) a U.S. call for a reconvening of the 14-member Geneva Conference on Cambodia, similar to Washington's request earlier this year in the case of Laos...