BUSH FAMILY FAVORITE PETER MAX HITS THE ROAD..THE KGB SNOOPS...BILL COLBY EXPLAINS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 15, 2012
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• Publication Date: July 1, 1991
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f a boxing champ can't keep
the pounds off, what hope is
there for the rest of us? Sugar
Ray Leonard wanted to lose his
..love handles.'' so he slipped
into Sibley Hospital in May for a
little liposuction, courtesy of a
Montgomery County plastic sur-
geon. Dr. Jorge Reisin.
That's artist Peter Max rejoicing
before a painting he completed
recently on the front lawn of the
White House. One of the First
Family's favorite artists was in
the Soviet Union last month to
unveil a 25-year retrospective-
including this canvas of Old Glo-
ry-that drove the Soviets wild.
On opening night the line
stretched around the block outside
the huge Central Exhibition Hall
of the Hermitage museum. When
the doors opened. police struggled
to control a crowd eager to see
Max's exuberant work. celebrat-
ing such Western icons as the Bea-
tles and the Statue of Liberty.
The Max organization invited
me over for the opening, which
boasted some of the hoopla of a
rock tour, complete with a crew
from music-video channel VH-1.
with former Herman's Hermits
star Peter Noone as host. There
were even groupies, of a fash-
ion-wealthy collectors from Ja-
pan and the United States invited
by Max's American dealer. Scott
Hanson.
In Leningrad, maybe soon
again to be St. Petersburg; the
bad old days of the KGB aren't
quite over, as I found out at my
hotel on a barge. the Olympia.
Once a floating dormitory for
offshore oil workers, the barge
was converted by the Swedish
hotel chain Reso into a hotel, lux-
urious by Soviet standards. After
checking in, I took a four: hour
walk around Leningrad and re-
turned to find that my room had
been thoroughly searched. Not
missing were about $1.000 in
cash, bottles of Scotch, and car-
tons of Marlboros-brought as
"gifts for natives." as National
Geographic expense-account
forms used to gay.
Missing were a stack of Ameri-
3ush Family Favorite Peter Max Hits the Road
The KGB Snoops ... Bill Colby Explains
can magazines, a John Le Carte
novel, my calendar. a guidebook.
and two pieces of scrap paper on
which were written the names of
Soviets in Leningrad and Mos-
cow whom friends had suggested
I call.
The disappearance of the last
item convinced an Arne, ican dip-
lomat and a Soviet journalist with
whom I spoke that the internal-
security boys had paid a visit.
I was flattered thbt anyone
cared. But I'd appreciate the re-
turn of my daybook. Or at least
the KGB could call to remind me
of upcoming luncheon dates.
Ito try,
out the new nonstop from Dulles
to Tokyo (it's boffo), and my fel-
low travelers turned out to be for-
mer CIA director William Colby
and his wife, the former Ameri-
can ambassador to Barbados.
Sally Shelton.
While two JAL sushi chefs la-
bored in the front of the 747.
I asked Colby why the Leningrad
snoops hadn't taken my cash.
"Probably because there were
two of them," said Colby. He
suggested I write the Soviet Em-
bassy to request the return of my
calendar.
Colby had his own special
memory of the Soviet Union. He
first visited there last year. On a
December night. as a light snow
fell. Colby took a solitary walk in
Moscow. He saw the bare food
shelves of a department store and
then headed toward Red Square.
dramatically lit against the black
sky. For 40 years these people
have been our enemy. thought
Colby. Ten years ago he couldn t
have roamed Moscow A, he
gazed at the city's imposing
domes. the retired spy mast. r
considered his walk a pcrnon,,i
victory parade.
The Colbys have been marrlcLi
for nearly seven years. He , _I
she's 47. His children tram ii,
first marriage. Sally She!!,, ,
says. have not accepted hi,
and marriage gracefully
"There's a societal
against second marriages.
Shelton. "The second w i to i. i,
a real wife. It goes hack to i.,1
tales-stepmothers are c
When children are younger. thr.
look at the second wife as an iu
thority figure. When the% rc
adults. they speak their mind
Shelton says that relations be-
tween her and her new husband's
adult children have on occasion
been less than civil. Which has
led Shelton, an economic adviser
to companies that do business in
Latin America. to begin work on
a book about second marriages
that involve adult children.
Shelton thinks it' II be a hot top-
ic in an era when Americans are
living longer than ever before.
Most second marriages end in di-
vorce. and Shelton sass the hig-
gest problem is adult children L
Pay. 1i
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