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DIED. Daniel J. Haughton, 75, patriarchal former chairman of Lockheed Corp., who helped oversee the development of the U-2 and SR-71 reconnaissance planes and the L-1011 jetliner while combatting financial crises that culminated in the aircraft maker's near bankruptcy in 1971; of complications following heart and gallbladder surgery; in Marietta, Ga. Haughton resigned in 1976 after revelations of massive overseas payoffs by Lockheed in order to boost aircraft sales...
...resin importer, Conran displayed a passion for his craft at 14, when he excelled in metalwork and pottery at the exclusive Bryanston School, in Dorset. After studying textile design at London's Central School of Design, he free-lanced as a furniture maker before opening a home-furnishings store, called Habitat, in London in 1964. From its rows of white crockery to assemble-it-yourself pine beds and tables, Habitat offered products designed in the modernist tradition of the '30s, a kind of Bauhaus for our house: less is more, natural is better, simple is best...
Lawson makes a living in an ill-defined sort of way. "I'm neither a butcher, a baker nor a candlestick maker. I do joint ventures with the entertainment industry. I'm a member of the Screen Actors Guild. I wrote a screenplay. I've got a horrendous project involving the integration of entertainment with education. You want to call me a consultant? Will your stomach settle? Okay, I'm a consultant. But really I do whatever the Sam Hill I want to." Lately he has been involved in something called Pro Per Inc., + which is "attempting to de-lawyer...
...press is the middleman. It is in effect the professor for the public," Kalb says, adding, "policy is the result of the policy maker and the public." But Kalb says that recent developments in the press have unsettled his faith in broadcast journalism. "Network news has undergone profound changes. I worry about the trend toward increasing shallowness, pretension and egomaniacal compulsion," he says. "We must stick to old-fashioned values...
...noted speech-maker, the principal speaker of today's Commencement Exercises has used his largely ceremonial position to speak on modern Germany's responsibilities to deal with its Nazi past, and the burden on all Germans to remember that time...