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...public Katharine Graham was born, at the age of 46, out of a catastrophe - the suicide in 1963 of her brilliant and unstable husband Philip, a manic depressive who was publisher of the Washington Post...
That wasn't good. For the merging companies and their opponents, Gonzalez-Diaz was the man to see. The Spaniard, 39, a native of the Canary Islands, is known as a brilliant mathematician and lawyer, hardworking and intensely ambitious. One source (on the losing side of this case) also calls him "deeply cynical about the motivation of business and a nightmare to deal with." GE's opponents knew they would never convince Monti without first winning over Gonzalez-Diaz. The principals came to a rough division of labor: Rolls-Royce stressed the dangers of allowing GE to "bundle" engines...
...goes so far as to offer her husband Otto's left hand, in the event of his death, as a replacement for Wallingford's. Sure enough, Otto accidentally shoots himself dead on the night of the 1998 Super Bowl, and his hand is flown to Boston where a brilliant surgeon transplants it to Wallingford's left forearm. With the hand comes the grieving widow, who has some interesting plans of her own for the lucky recipient...
...Greenback will be 77 then, and few expect him to try to go another four years after steering the money supply (rather successfully) through a recession, a boom, a global currency crisis and whatever it is we're in now. Who's up next? Vice Chairman Roger Ferguson is brilliant, qualified, and Bush just renominated him. But the Fed Chairmanship is a political appointment, for friends and allies only, and Ferguson was Clinton's pick...
...First full-length work, The Birthday Party, is produced in London and closes after four performances. Critics are caustic, apart from the Sunday Times' Harold Hobson, who hails Pinter as a brilliant new writer...