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Staff Writer Patricia Blake, who wrote the story, is familiar with dissidence. A lifelong student of Russian literature and politics, she was the author of our cover story on the most famous dissenter of all, Alexander Solzhenitsyn (Feb. 25, 1974). "I found what Sakharov told Marsh Clark particularly moving," she says. "He breathes compassion...
...every box score and record book, he is listed as Dummy Hoy, a perpetual recognition of his lifelong handicap. He was born deaf and dumb on May 23, 1862 in Houckstown, Ohio and broke into the big leagues in 1888 when he joined the Washington club in the National League...
...there) and the sibling of vivid and irreverent juniors, he is trained to expect equal fare from the world. He can't often get it, but he's trained to go on trying-as courteous son; tried but patient older brother; as Christian fellow creature; and as lifelong veteran of small-town culture, which requires a sophistication of manners at least the equivalent of manners at Versailles...
Great Challenge. The job as energy czar will be Schlesinger's fifth Government post in a career that has been spent mostly as a specialist in defense economics. A lifelong Republican-but one who nonetheless considers himself an apolitical technocrat-he joined the Nixon Administration in 1969 and served as assistant budget director, AEC chairman, CIA director and, finally, Secretary of Defense. His trademarks were an ever-present pipe, an ever-flapping shirttail, a rumpled suit and a heavy-handed sarcasm that made him many enemies. Ford fired him last year, because of both his abrasiveness and his skepticism...
...lifelong Democrat, Vance is a product of the Eastern Establishment that regards foreign policy as its special purlieu. Son of an insurance executive (who was also a Democrat and who died when young Vance was five), he spent much of his boyhood in Clarksburg, W. Va., where he became friendly with John W. Davis, the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the presidency in 1924. "I used to browse in Mr. Davis' law library," Vance once recalled. "I remembered the smell of bound leather and those wonderfully big shelves of law books." Vance was sent to the Kent School in Connecticut...