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...Noyce was fed up with Fairchild. The firm was blowing up: engineers were leaving, top execs didn't understand the semi business, and science was being replaced by politics. Noyce phoned Arthur Rock, now the eminence grise of Silicon Valley investing, and told him that he and Moore wanted to start their own semiconductor company. Fairchild, he said, was finished. Rock (who holds nearly $500 million of Intel stock today) raised the money nearly instantly. Moore told Grove of the plan one day when they were at a conference in Boulder, Colo. The decision to join his bosses was made...
...Washington's shadowy power brokers operate best in secret, JOE GAYLORD is losing his mystique. It was bad enough when Gaylord, eminence grise to NEWT GINGRICH, was blamed for isolating the House Speaker, antagonizing enough Republican brethren to threaten Newt's leadership post earlier this month. Now it turns out Gaylord took $7,500 a month from a Republican think tank so cash starved that HALEY BARBOUR had to obtain a $2.1 million loan guarantee from a Hong Kong businessman to make good on its debts. The National Policy Forum's payments of about $112,000 to Gaylord...
...White House sent chief counsel and eminence grise Lloyd Cutler to testify on the first day of hearings. Cutler's mild, 11-page account of 20 contacts between White House officials and those overseeing the federal probe of the Madison Guaranty S&L briefly seemed to take the air out of the hearings. But he had barely completed his testimony when he corrected himself, moving up by one week the time at which the White House knew the targets of the RTC's investigations. His assessment of the Clinton team's overall performance was a gentle scold: "I have concluded...
...York judge last week dismissed all criminal charges against Clark Clifford, the Washington eminence grise charged with fraud and bribery in connection with the B.C.C.I. scandal. The judge pointedly cited the 86-year- old's ill health, not "the interests of justice," as the reason for his decision. Clifford, however, claimed to have been vindicated...
...wouldn't be surprised if someday he's looked upon as one of the great saints of our time," says Joseph Fessio, an American Jesuit and a former student. However, as the Pope's conservative eminence grise, the Cardinal is also one of the most despised men in Catholicism. Critics decry his hard-line ways and his apostasy from the seeming liberalism of his youth. They call the German-born prelate "Panzer Kardinal" and conjure up images of Huns and German despots. "He is very sweet -- and very dangerous," the Swiss theologian Hans Kung says. Ratzinger helped force Kung...