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...American and a Canadian won the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing a new way to study the building blocks of all matter -- atoms and molecules. The $930,000 physics prize will be shared by Clifford G. Shull of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Bertram N. Brockhouse of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. Both developed a way to probe atomic structure by knocking off neutrons from particles of matter...
Also named in the suit are luminaries in the Democratic Party firmament: attorneys Clark Clifford and Paul Warnke. Such Washington power brokers were the company of choice for Pamela Harriman. (In fact, White House counsel Lloyd Cutler signed on as her adviser after the suit was filed.) President Clinton once called her "the first lady of the Democratic Party." Indeed, her house and her parties were a haven for Democratic loyalists during the Reagan-Bush epoch. Over the years, she raised more than $12 million for Democratic candidates. Clifford, 87, whose name was muddied by the Bank of Credit...
...Clifford says, Harriman asked him and Warnke, both old friends, to serve as trustees for nine trusts for his children and grandchildren. After her husband's death in 1986, Pamela became a general partner in the enterprise. Within four years the initial $12 million investment had grown to $25 million. Clifford says the heirs complained they were not getting enough income, so the partnership overseeing funds diversified beyond securities. Some of the new investments were money losers. Clifford says more than $4.5 million was invested in a New Jersey resort that he admits "didn't develop in the manner...
...Pamela Harriman's relations with her stepchildren. "Pam did not do me any great favors as a stepmother," says Brooke Hayward, whose father Leland Hayward was Pamela's second husband. (Averell was her third; her first was Winston Churchill's son.) "She's greedy beyond the usual human greed." Clifford says Averell's family were deeply unhappy in 1971 when Pamela, then 51, married Averell, then 80. Adds Clifford: "He was generous to Mrs. Harriman during his lifetime, and in his will. That was resented by members of his family...
...were to end without a contract, the owners would retain powerful weapons in their arsenal: the legal right under labor law to impose their proposal for a salary cap and the ability to lock the players out of 1995 spring training if they balked. So like characters in a Clifford Odets play, the union believed their only recourse was to strike...