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Reuben Greenberg, 40, Charleston. Upon arriving in 1982 in tradition-bound Charleston, S.C., Greenberg had three things going against him. He was black. He was an outsider, from the Florida department of law enforcement. And he was a practicing Jew, the great-grandson of a white Jewish Texas farmer and his black wife. In less than a month he had created several new obstacles to his popularity in the department: a firm order forbidding the unnecessary use of force, followed by a volley of other new regulations that now fill a 3-in.- thick handbook...
Excluded from the deal is Scribner's 71-year-old, Beaux-Arts-style bookstore on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Said Chairman Charles Scribner Jr., 62, the great-grandson of the company founder: "The family has run the bookstore almost as long as the book publishing company, and I would be brokenhearted if we were not able to maintain it. We will strive to continue...
...Thayer termed the charges "entirely without merit" and vowed to fight them. At week's end his replacement had been named: William Howard Taft IV, the self-effacing chief counsel of the Defense Department, a protégé of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and great-grandson of the 27th President...
...walnut horse so homely and cantankerous that he was gelded as a yearling heard the sweet cheers of a racetrack crowd for the first time in 17 years, and then he died of colic the next day at the age of 26. Kelso, the great-grandson of Man o' War, was fetched to Belmont in New York State the Saturday before last along with Forego, a younger pensioner similarly handicapped. The occasion was the Jockey Club Gold Cup, a stake that Kelso won five years in a row (1960-64), when he was the horse of the year every...
That represents quite a turnaround from the late 1970s, when Ford earned a reputation for manufacturing stodgy-looking cars. Concedes Edsel Ford, 34, a product planner and great-grandson of Company Founder Henry Ford: "People thought we built boring cars." Buyers were turned off by the slab sides and flat roofs on models like the Ford Fairmont and the Mercury Marquis...