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Connerly's life, a Horatio Alger tale of an orphan's adversity, pluck and triumph, has an almost mythical value to his supporters. He was born in Louisiana, where his parents divorced when he was two (he hasn't seen his father since) and his mother died when he was...
"A lie," Connerly says flatly, adding that the charges came from estranged kin who resent his success and disagree with his stand on affirmative action. His aunt Bertha Louis agrees, telling TIME that when Connerly left her house and moved in with his grandmother, "it was very, very rough going...
NEW YORK CITY: Betty Shabazz, the widow of Malcom X, died Monday at age 61 in a New York hospital of burns suffered in a June 1 fire in her apartment. Shabazz got that name when her husband made a pilgrimage to Mecca and returned El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz...
There is art to diplomacy, certainly, but is there diplomatic art? Absolutely. The State Department's Art in Embassies program provides American paintings, sculptures, drawings--even weavings--to U.S. ambassadors who want to spruce up their residences and look tasteful and patriotic. Through agreements with an array of institutions, artists...
DIED. ADOLPHUS ("Doc") CHEATHAM, 91, late-blooming trumpeter; in Washington. Once an understudy for Louis Armstrong, Doc became a leading sideman of the swing era. His buttery lyricism and witty improvisations played better with age. By his seventh decade, he had grown into his trademark stance--trumpet held high, pointed...