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...Allen. Lanky and quietly determined, Allen has spent his entire 36- year career within the Bell System and AT&T. He learned to take chances from his father Walter, who quit his job of 21 years with the J.J. Newberry chain of five-and-dimes to purchase a bankrupt children's clothing store in New Castle, Indiana. "Talk about courage," recalls Allen, still in admiration...
...down for insurance, dropped or forced to pay a higher ! premium even if you have AIDS, cancer or some other "pre-existing condition," in the insurance jargon. You could not lose your insurance or have it reduced because you are fired or laid off, or because your company goes bankrupt or because you quit to look for a better job; your benefits will be portable. "The health-security button is the one we're pushing," says a White House official involved in the planning. "People will pay more for security...
...spent months on crutches. The next year he was one of four leaders of the Vietnam Moratorium, a massive national series of antiwar protests. In 1986 he devised an eight- month march by more than a thousand people across the U.S. to promote nuclear disarmament; the organization went bankrupt just as the marchers reached the Mojave Desert. Mixner did not focus on gay rights until the advent of AIDS. He has lost 192 friends to the disease, including his business partner of 12 years, Peter Scott. Says Mixner: "Going on Nightline was easy - compared with burying Peter. Everything...
...presidency has gone bankrupt, it can't be helped. Richard Nixon did not leave office of his own free will...
...years earlier, his elder brother, Geoffrey Wolff, had published his own memoir, The Duke of Deception, a remarkable account of life with their father Arthur Wolff, a loving, brilliant rogue who was a lifelong bankrupt, scamster and confidence man. "A bad man and a good father," Geoffrey wrote after he floated free of the wreckage his father had created. Tobias recalls that he admired Geoffrey's book but that some of the characterizations seemed jarringly out of key. Then his own book came out. It told of their mother's cross-country flight with him, leaving Geoffrey behind with Arthur...