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"From my experience and that of others, I can say that kidnaping today is a real, solidly based industry." Italian Jeweler Gianni Bulgari knew what he was talking about. He had just spent 31 days as a captive after his abduction during a traffic jam near Rome's Via Veneto. Last week Bulgari, 40, lighter by 20 lbs. and a little over $2 million in ransom, was found tied hand and foot in a stolen Fiat less than 500 yds. from his home in the luxurious Parioli district. He had spent the past month locked in a 6-ft. square cell, he told police, and could not identify his captors. After two days of seclusion, the gaunt businessman emerged to correct reports that his ransom had been a record $16 million. "The astronomical sums reported in the press only provide free advertising and promotion for this new kind of economic enterprise," he said. Bachelor Bulgari, an occasional escort of Gina Lollobrigida and Candice Bergen, then added: "Even if I am wealthy, that doesn't mean to say I am as rich as many have written." Not any more, at least.
"I never thought of it being my fifth Masters title—not until it was over and I was slipping on the green coat," declared Golfer Jack Nicklaus, 35, who collected $40,000 in prize money and one more winner's jacket at the Masters Tournament in Augusta, Ga. Others were more acutely aware of Nicklaus' achievement. "I can't say how I feel," said an anguished Tom Weiskopf, who lost the lead and eventually finished second (for the fourth time), in a tie with Johnny Miller. "How do you describe pain?" For Nicklaus, the tournament's most exhilarating moment came on the 16th green, where the Golden Bear sank a meandering 40-ft. birdie putt, then bounded into a victory dance. Miller, playing one hole behind, was later asked if he had seen his rival's moment of glory. "See it?" he asked. "I had to walk through the bear prints."
For Canada's Pierre Trudeau, the trip to Mont Saint-Grégoire east of Montreal had all the look of the Prime Minister's baby-holding, mama-kissing campaign days. While some 1,000 guests of the Mont Royal Liberal Association picnicked on French Canadian baked beans, crēpes and oreilles de krist, Trudeau mixed with the voters, then gulped down a mouthful of the day's specialty —snow-hardened maple syrup. The political party lingered through the day, but Trudeau left early for the return trip to Ottawa and Wife Margaret, who, the Prime Minister's office later revealed, would be giving birth to a new constituent in October.