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...Elliot Richardson is a hero. He is being called courageous and principled, a shining exemplar in an Administration of forgers and grafters and crooks. He is talked of as a presidential possibility...
...This exemplar of high style began, unpromisingly enough, as an illiterate mason's apprentice from Padua, where he was born in 1508; he was named Andrea di Pietro della Gondola. At 34, he was still listed on the guild rolls as a "stonecutter." But by then the decisive moment in his career had come; in the late 1530s, while he was working on the construction of Villa Cricoli near Vicenza, its owner took him under his wing. Giangiorgio Trissino, a wealthy humanist with a special interest in architecture, renamed his protégé Palladio, after an Angel...
...storm of emotional repercussions from the abrupt dismissal of its director, a disorganized and inefficient warehouse and delivery system, and a backlog of near-unsalable books, the Press was in a precarious position. Not only was its financial and competitive status under fire, but its reputation as the exemplar of university presses in the country was endangered as well...
...C.R.P.) and a onetime law partner of Richard Nixon's in the Manhattan firm of Nixon Mudge Rose Guthrie and Mitchell. A dour, pipe-puffing municipal-bond lawyer, Mitchell was also Nixon's closest political confidant. As Attorney General from 1969 until early 1972, he was the exemplar of the tough law-and-order man, who claimed the authority to tap the telephone of anyone whom he considered a security risk...
Currency crises are supposed to exert a dangerously depressing force on international business, because they create devastating uncertainty about the value of paper money. But the effect on that exemplar of corporate internationalism, American Express Co., has been quite the opposite. Despite, or indeed partly because of the monetary upheavals of the last two years, the company is making more money than ever in its 123-year history. During 1972 its profits rose 20% for the 24th consecutive yearly increase. This year is starting out even better. Chairman Howard L. Clark disclosed last week that earnings in the first quarter...