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...quarterback or a political pro, Jack Kemp has always been nimble and quick. Those qualities came in handy last week, as he dealt with the scandal at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which has billowed from a candlestick into an inferno. Before celebrating his 54th birthday with 54 cakes from admiring employees, the beleaguered HUD chief wryly conceded, "When I first took the nomination from President Bush, I wanted to make HUD a high-profile agency. I don't think this is what I had in mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jack Be Nimble, Jack Be Quick | 7/24/1989 | See Source »

...only son, Benigno III ("Noynoy"), 26, was one of her emissaries to the Communists. Aquino attends no more than three formal dinners a week, and the day on which the historic cease-fire with the Communists was signed found her marking what would have been her husband's 54th birthday with Cardinal Sin and her one-year-old grandson Justin Benigno. Being a grandmother, she says, makes her happier than being President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Woman of the Year | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...where President Aquino took her oath of office ten months ago. She was not present for the historic moment. Instead, along with her friend and adviser Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila, she attended a ceremony that morning marking what would have been her slain husband Benigno's 54th birthday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: First a Firing, Then a Truce | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...phalanx of non-Black Harvardians who dedicated their lives to the furthering of universal freedom. Black Harvardians have an opportunity to share the tradition of John Quincy Adams who defended the Black liberation, Cinque, of the absolutionists Emerson, Longfellow and Thoreau. Robert could Shaw volunteered to lead the Black 54th Massachusetts regiment into battle and was killed in a bloody assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina. Shaw was buried in a mass grave with his slain troops. His family wrote. "He could have no finer honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black Alumni Weekend | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

With an array of dignitaries behind him and the largest inauguration crowd in the city's history in front, Raymond L. Flynn yesterday morning became Boston 54th mayor and the city's first new mayor in 16 years...

Author: By James W. Silver, | Title: Boston Gets a New Mayor, Cambridge-Not Quite | 1/3/1984 | See Source »

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