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Lyndon Johnson once called him "an s.o.b. with elbows." Explains the recipient of that odd encomium, Texas-born Charlie Walker: "Down where we come from, that's a term of endearment." In fact, just about everybody in Washington likes the breezy, boisterous superlobbyist, who represents the nation's biggest corporations, including General Motors Corp., Gulf Oil Corp. and the country's five largest airlines. Even Walker's opponents openly admire him. Says liberal Lawyer Max Kampelman: "He's always on the wrong side, but he's good for his clients. He delivers...
This defender of American capitalism was born 54 years ago in Graham, Texas, 90 miles northwest of Fort Worth. His mother named him Charls Edward Walker, vainly hoping that the unusual spelling of his first name would keep him from being "Charlie." He went to the universities of Texas and Pennsylvania, where he earned his doctorate in economics. After working as a Federal Reserve Bank economist, he became an assistant to Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson in 1959. From 1961 to 1968, while the Democrats were in power, Walker served as executive vice president of the American Bankers Association. He moved...
...York Post-After getting a tip that Britain's Dr. Patrick Steptoe was on the verge of success with an in vitro fertilization technique, Post Reporter Sharon Churcher placed an overseas call to Steptoe. He let it slip that a test-tube baby might soon be born, and Churcher broke the news on April...
...Mail last week, plans were presumably still afoot to print the Browns' EXCLUSIVE story once the baby was born, though editors there were uncommonly uncommunicative. The Enquirer this week will print its version of the story, though Murdoch's Sun somehow got hold of a few Enquirer morsels last week in London. Murdoch's Star, a Manhattan-based competitor of the Enquirer, will be out this week with some color snapshots, obtained from friends and neighbors of the Browns, and a 3,500-word article...
...camera she has been a double agent in Marathon Man and a Palestinian terrorist in Black Sunday. Off the set, Swiss-born Marthe Keller is a homebody who has just finished furnishing a Manhattan apartment and plans to settle in New York City. "Some day I would like to play a nice American girl," she says. First, she is off to Europe, where she has the title role in the movie Lulu, yet another adaptation of the Frank Wedekind play about a German seductress compelled to destroy the lives of her lovers. "Lulu is decadent and perverse...