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...urbane and witty as Takeshita is provincial and dry. A rabbit at negotiating Japan's bureaucratic warrens, Miyazawa served for ten years in the Ministry of Finance before his 1953 election to the Diet, where his faction now numbers 89. The favorite among businessmen and government officials, Miyazawa is fluent in English. All his brilliance, ironically, may be a political liability in a country where too much flair and genius, openly displayed, is suspect...
...came back, as he put it, "to make a fortune by Washington alone; I calculate upon making a plurality of portraits." He did not die rich, but he was said to be able to whip off a Washington on demand in two hours flat. Stuart's diction was as fluent as Peale's was meticulous and creaky...
Something has always separated Citicorp Chairman John Shepard Reed from the crowd. While many of his high-powered banking colleagues must lumber along in English on their travels abroad, he can close a deal in fluent Spanish or Portuguese. A political independent in a Republican-dominated business, he once criticized U.S. policy on Viet Nam during a White House meeting in front of his banking boss and a Cabinet officer. During the Reagan years, according to another account, Reed has driven up to the same prestigious Pennsylvania Avenue address in a humble white Toyota compact. Now the whiz kid once...
...Illarion and Princess Lydia Vassiltchikov of St. Petersburg. The family left the Soviet Union in 1919 to live in Germany, France and Lithuania, then an independent republic. During the Depression of the 1930s, Missie and her sister Tatiana (a future Princess Metternich) sought work in Berlin. The diarist's fluent English landed her a job as a translator with the Foreign Ministry's information department. After the war, she and her husband, Architect Peter Harnden, had four children. He died in 1971 in Barcelona. Missie then moved to London, where she died of leukemia seven years later...
Gelb, who is fluent in Chinese, spent his summer interviewing foreign and domestic journalists, talking to government officials and academics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The Adams House resident knew that he would do his thesis on China after he spent a year in China working as a market analyst for IBM and Altman...