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McHenry's rise to his present post has been low-keyed and skillful. Born in St. Louis, he graduated from Illinois State University and earned a master's degree in international relations at Southern Illinois University. In 1963 he joined the State Department as a junior officer in the Office of United Nations Political Affairs and rose quickly through the ranks. A liberal concerned with the humanitarian side of foreign policy, he left the department when Henry Kissinger became Secretary, and joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
Admiral of the Fleet, Earl Mountbatten of Burma was born at Frogmore House, Windsor, in 1900, just as the sun was passing over the yardarm of Empire. His father was Prince Louis of Battenberg, a German kinsman of Czar Nicholas II of Russia and later Britain's First Sea Lord. Queen Victoria held him in her arms as he was christened Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas. The Battenbergs called their baby son Nickie, but its Russian connotation at that time prompted them to change the nickname to Dickie, much as the family name was later anglicized to Mountbatten...
...trip was "a tremendous event," he recalls. From that moment, the Sierra?"that great earth gesture"?dominated Adams' life, changed his vocation, gave him his subjects. He was married there, to fellow Californian Virginia Best, a marriage that has lasted 51 years. One of his two children was born there, and not a year has passed since 1916 without his making at least one return visit. Often the visits have been elaborate affairs. Adams, working for the Sierra Club as a photographer and guide, would lead as many as 200 people trekking stubbornly across the landscape. He even staged...
...BORN. To Rod Stewart (Da Ya Think I'm Sexy?), 34, raspy-voiced rock star, and Alana Collins Hamilton, 33, an actress formerly married to Actor George Hamilton: a daughter, his first child, her second; in Los Angeles. Name: Alana Kimberly...
DIED. Julio de Diego, 79, Spanish-born artist whose vivid paintings of sinister battle scenes and mechanistic landscapes are in the collections of major museums; of cancer; in Sarasota, Fla. Diego left home at 15 to apply his brushes to everything from inn signs to stage sets. In 1924 he emigrated to the U.S. and worked as a fashion illustrator before achieving success as a muralist. For seven years Diego was married to Burlesque Queen Gypsy Rose...