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Died. Paul Vincent Shields, 73, founder and senior partner of Wall Street's Shields & Co., financial confidant of Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of the first brokers to recognize and demand a thorough reform of the freewheeling New York Stock Exchange after the 1929 crash; of cancer; in Manhattan. A...
Life Sentence. Unwilling to be "just a businessman," Bustani is the confidant of most of the Mideast's rulers, and the author of two provocative books on "the Arab problem." A Maronite Christian and Western in his ways, he is both an intense Arab nationalist and an intense advocate...
Republic of Engineers. Another close confidant of De Gaulle is Olivier Guichard, 42, who was Pompidou's administrative assistant before he caught the President's eye. A baron who maintains informal liaison with the left wing, Guichard is De Gaulle's traveling companion, troubleshooter and one-man...
India's catastrophic unreadiness for war stems directly from the policy of nonalignment which was devised by Nehru and implemented by his close confidant Krishna Menon. Says one Indian editor: "Nonalignment is no ideology. It is an idiosyncrasy."
Died. Timothy Costello, 67, shillelagh-sporting Manhattan pubkeeper and longtime confidant of such writers as Hemingway, Steinbeck, O'Hara, and most visibly, James Thurber, who adorned Costello's Third Avenue saloon with his free-swinging sketches of the eternal war between the sexes; of a heart attack; in...