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...become president of Notre Dame. Some brilliant flashbacks explore the genesis of P.B.'s touchdown philosophy, his initiation into Chicago politics, his brush with racketeering. Others chart Tom's rise to power at the university and follow him through an ardent friendship with an actress named Maria Moore...
...crescendo occurs on a dizzying weekend when both Notre Dame and the family empire seem ready to come apart. The campus is erupting in a freakish religious spectacle. A Vatican visitor offers Father Kinsella the Archdiocese of Chicago-just as Maria asks for clarification of her role in Kinsella's life. Meanwhile, a federal prosecutor tries to build political capital out of an investigation of P.B.'s firm. Kennedy ties just the right knots in these tangled threads, while rounding out most of his cast with a sure hand. P.B., his best creation, is solid brick...
DIED. Carol Fox, 55, feisty, determined co-founder of the Lyric Opera of Chicago, who, as its general manager for 25 years, helped build it into one of the country's leading opera companies; of a heart attack; in Chicago. A former voice student, Fox gave Maria Callas her U.S. debut and brought so many top-ranked Italian singers to the Lyric that the company was dubbed "La Scala West...
...headed the European Community Commission's delegation to Washington from 1975 to 1980 and who hi February became chief of staff to Commission President Gaston Thorn hi Brussels; of wounds received when he was shot with a hunting rifle, apparently by his estranged wife of 28 years, Anna-Maria, who then appears to have committed suicide by electrocuting herself in the bath; in Ixelles, Belgium. The son of Paul-Henri Spaak, the former Belgian Prime Minister and Foreign Minister who played a major role in the formation of the European Community and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Spaak helped...
...indication of the restlessness beneath the authoritarian veneer was the scene last week as the government freed the country's last civilian President, Maria Estela Martinez de Perón, 49, after five years of detention. A onetime cabaret dancer, she assumed power after the death in 1974 of her husband, Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, but proved to be woefully incompetent and was jailed in 1976 by the military junta for misusing public property. The military finally arranged her release to remove a rallying point for her still loyal followers, who remain the most potent civilian political...