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...World War II as well as great wealth and serious conflicts with the Federal Government. Born to a family of bankers and lawyers on Oct. 8, 1905, in a part of Transylvania that now belongs to Rumania, Deak was educated in Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and France and became fluent in five languages. After taking a job with a foreign exchange brokerage firm in New York City in 1939, he joined the U.S. Army as a paratrooper and later became a senior intelligence officer in the Office of Strategic Services, the forerunner of the CIA. After the war, he helped launch...
...industrial designer in the Hunan city of Changsha. Unhappy with their prospects, they began taking seriously stories about Shenzhen, about the wealth of jobs, high salaries and ample living quarters. Wu traveled 450 miles by train to Shenzhen and quickly found a job in an electronics plant. His wife, fluent in English, was hired by the same company as an interpreter. This summer the pair moved to Shenzhen and a life of few regrets. "Prices are a bit higher, but so are our salaries," Chen Li says. "We have a comfortable flat and enjoy our jobs. We like it here...
When Peking announced this summer that Jiang Zemin would replace the avuncular Wang Daohan as Shanghai's mayor, the choice seemed a bit odd. No one doubted that Jiang, 59, was a man of high accomplishment. A Soviet-trained electrical engineer fluent in four languages, Jiang distinguished himself in China's Administrative Commission of Import and Export Affairs for three years before becoming, and excelling as, the Minister of Electronics Industry. But Jiang, as he is the first to admit, had never run a municipality before, let alone his country's largest industrial city (pop. 12 million). "I'm inexperienced...
...General Secretary of the Communist Party. Both men were elevated last fall to the party's policy-setting Politburo. Li, the adopted son of former Premier Chou En-lai, is a Soviet-educated engineer who speaks Russian and has served as minister of the Chinese power industry. Hu, a fluent English speaker, runs the party's day-to-day activities...
Without question, Saint-Gaudens was one of the most fluent sculptors that ever lived, and his clients demanded fluency. He could and did turn his hand to anything, from a 10-ft. stone profile on a pyramid in Wyoming to the design of the century's most beautiful coin, the gold 1907 double eagle. He could evoke any mood in a face, from the tremulous profile of an adolescent girl to the stormy jut of Farragut's jaw. But the main impression his works leave, when seen together, is not so much of a rigid technique turning out predictable results...