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Healy is credited with molding strong fiscal policy and keeping the city solvent during the recession. Under Healy's ten-year tenure as city manager, he has made Cambridge the city with the highest bond rating in the Commonwealth...
...presidency could someday outweigh its concrete accomplishments. From fashion (a continually bareheaded J.F.K. decapitated the hat industry) to sports (touch football and 50-mile hikes) to dallying with movie stars (Marilyn Monroe suggestively cooing "Happy birthday, Mr. President"), Kennedy defined a style that was half Harvard and half James Bond. But J.F.K. spoke for a generation that craved a larger-than-life icon, a President who legitimized both its bravery in World War II and its man-in-the-gray-flannel-suit struggles to create the affluent society...
...question. Foreign leaders who have talked to Clinton or his representatives have reason to believe most of his instincts are sound. Britain, America's premier ally, hopes his Oxford background and age -- at 46, Clinton is of the same generation as Prime Minister John Major, 49 -- will reinforce the bond...
Whoever is chosen to replace Rich Bond as party chairman next January will face the task of reuniting the fractious G.O.P. Departing Minnesota Congressman Vin Weber seems the favorite for the job, partly because he is a straight-talking pol who kept his head above water while the President was drowning in his futile re-election bid. Du Pont also wants the party job, and has hinted he would forgo another run at the White House if he got it. Gramm and many moderate Bush operatives believe Labor Secretary Lynn Martin would do a better job of preventing the party...
...apparent, president Robert Lutz. Iacocca sees the upheaval as a positive force. "We do run better scared," he says. "When we have trouble, we're used to that. That has been the beauty of Chrysler for 50 years." While Chrysler still has $15.9 billion in debts rated at junk-bond levels, last month the company surprised analysts by posting $202 million in earnings for the third quarter, making Chrysler the only profitable member of the Big Three...