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...Duke Law School, where he earned the nickname "Gloomy Gus" for his cautious, pessimistic, Depression-bred outlook, Nixon finished third in his class. Unable to land work with a major New York law firm (he also tried the FBI), he returned to practice in Whittier, where he met Thelma Catherine ("Pat") Ryan, who taught shorthand and typing at the local high school. They were married after a two-year courtship and set up housekeeping in an apartment over a garage...
Perhaps no living painter has ever been thrust into such notoriety by a novel as Moreau was by the publication of J.K. Huysmans' manifesto of decadence, A Rebours, in 1884. Moreau was then 58, a Parisian born and bred, praised in the salon, an officer of the Legion of Honor, a mature and respected figure with a strong academic bias. The fictional hero of A Rebours, that absurd purple monster des Esseintes, was described as owning two of his paintings. One was the elaborate Salome Dancing Before Herod, 1876 (see color page...
...only St. Bernards that suffer the evils of inbreeding. Some German shepherds have hip dysplasia (a flattening of the joint), attributed to selective mating of dogs whose congenital hip dysfunction gives them a long, graceful sloping line, but makes walking progressively more difficult. Chihuahuas, bred for large, domelike skulls, are often born hydrocephalic, become snappy and irritable as excess fluid presses on the brain. Neurophysiologist Richard Redding of Alabama's Auburn University has performed lobotomies on 15 schizoid cocker spaniels whose unpredictable behavior oscillated between cuddly and violent...
...cosmologist Erich von Däniken conjures up primordial heroes from the plain of Nazca and the temples of Palenque ?extraterrestrial astronauts who strayed to this planet long ago and then vanished. Today heroes and leaders bred on the earth seem almost as scarce. "There is a very obvious dearth of people who seem able to supply convincing answers, or even point to directions toward solutions," says Harvard President Derek Bok. "Leadership," observes Northwestern University Political Scientist Louis Masotti, "is one of those things you don't know you need until you don't have...
...Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller, she was U.S. representative on the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations, 1969-1972. A founder of the soon-to-open First Women's Bank & Trust Co. of New York, she now heads the international practice of a Wall Street law firm. Brooklyn-bred Hauser holds degrees from four universities; she earned a Ph.D. from the University of Strasbourg at 21 and a New York University law degree...