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...DIED. DICK STUART, 70, slugging first baseman nicknamed Dr. Strangeglove for his poor fielding; of cancer; in Redwood City, Calif. Despite his reputation as a fumbler, Stuart, who spent his most productive years with the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox, hit 228 homers in a 10-year career...
Inconspicuous, off to the side, backing up a flashier partner, putting out fires when called upon - it's a role Dick Cheney has played his entire life. Throughout his remarkable career - White House chief of staff to Gerald Ford, six-term Congressman, Secretary of Defense to the first President Bush and Vice President to the second - Cheney's success has derived from his unparalleled skill at serving as the discreet, effective, loyal adviser to higher-profile leaders. He did once flirt with the idea of twirling the flaming baton himself, considering a 1996 run for President. But the idea...
...Action Man Dick Cheney seems the antithesis of flamboyance. Stout, gray and slightly stooped, his speech measured and monotonous, he comes across as someone who would shun risks. And yet there are stories. There is Cheney the teenager in Wyoming, attaching a rope to the hood of a car and taking turns with his friends water skiing down irrigation canals that ran parallel to roads outside Casper. There is Congressman Cheney in 1983, five years after his first heart attack and a year before his second, catapulting down a treacherous ski slope in Jackson Hole, Wyo., his red scarf flapping...
...observes. What's more, say those who knew Cheney then, he spent more time "in the bend-your-elbow club," as a former Yalie puts it, than in the library. Cheney hung out with his cohort on the freshman football team, stayed up late playing cards and drinking beer. "Dick wasn't big on studying," remembers Jacob Plotkin, one of his roommates...
...TIME's Dick Cheney covers...