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...Haig's subtlety is in doubt, some other aspects of his character emphatically are not. His intensity is obvious...
They have been few and far between. On weekends, Haig does get to see Son Alexander Patrick, 28, an attorney, and Daughter Barbara, 24, who works for a law firm; both live in Washington. Another son, Brian, 27, graduated from West Point in 1975 and is now stationed at Fort Carson in Colorado...
Such relaxation as Haig gets is hyperactive. He tries to play six or seven sets of tennis on Sunday, and rides an Exercycle while watching the morning TV news before going to his office. He blames his heart trouble on the endless succession of 17-hour days he worked as deputy to Henry Kissinger. A two-pack-a-day smoker then, he quit for a while after his operation, but has resumed smoking under the pressure of his new job at State...
Perhaps the most marked of all Haig's characteristics is a self-assurance that even some admiring European allies say borders on arrogance, and a stern determination. These traits figure in almost every story told about him by family and friends, from childhood...
...middle of three children of a lawyer, Haig grew up in Bala-Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia. The neighborhood was respectably middle class, predominantly Catholic. Boys of the area formed secret gangs and Haig was the leader of one called the Musketeers. A good boxer himself, he kept out of fights by negotiating agreements under which rival gangs would stay off Bryn Mawr Avenue, the Musketeers' turf. That testimony comes from his younger brother Frank, a Jesuit priest who is chairman of the physics and computer science department at Loyola College in Baltimore. One Christmas Eve Al, then nine...