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Paschal Baute Lexington...
DIED. Carl D. Perkins, 71, liberal Democratic Congressman from Kentucky since 1949, chairman of the powerful House Education and Labor Committee since 1967 and one of the wiliest, most determined minds ever to hide behind a country-bumpkin exterior; of an apparent heart attack; in Lexington, Ky. In the 1960s Perkins helped steer Lyndon Johnson's antipoverty legislation through Congress; he had also pushed relentlessly for federal aid for vocational training in 1963 and for primary and secondary education in 1965. Perkins later became probably the most outspoken House critic of Reagan Administration budget cuts...
Theobald, though, accepted his disappointment with grace. The day the appointment was announced to employees, he was host at a cocktail party for Reed at the Club, a private dining room in the Citicorp Center on Lexington Avenue in Manhattan. Said a bank officer: "Theobald was the one who did it, not Wriston. Tom invited people over to have drinks for John, the winner. It was a class act." -By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Barry Kalb/New York
...currently a manager of the Nolan, Norton and Company international information technology consulting firm based in Lexington, Mass...
...Finney spent her entire childhood and high school career in the swimming pool, becoming one of the nation's finest backstrokers. When she brought her swimming show to Harvard, the Lexington, Ky. native was a national caliber athlete...