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...Indoor Track and Tennis Building (ITT) was next on the agenda and equally impressive. I hoped that the committee would meet track mentor Bill McCurdy and imagined how he would jolt them with one of his always refreshing comments. "Hey, I'm Irish, so just keep the green flowing in my direction," he might have said...
...wrote critically acclaimed novels in the '30s, disappeared for 20 years, and regained celebrity with the 1967 publication of Wide Sargasso Sea; in Exeter, England. Struck by her "instinct for form" and "almost lurid passion for stating the case of the underdog," Ford Madox Ford became her literary mentor and, ironically, a model for the contemptible men in her stories who invariably prey on fragile, Rhys-like heroines. Rhys, who was writing her memoirs when she died, observed: "If you want to write the truth, you must write about yourself. I am the only real truth I know...
...that many regard as "Margaret's mentor," brilliant, brooding Sir Keith Joseph, 61, proved too controversial to be kept too close to her side. A cerebral, Oxford-educated Jewish businessman, Joseph more than anyone else has been responsible for the Tories' monetarist vision of an unfettered economy. Joseph has been accused of insensitivity toward the poor-he once claimed that what Britain needed was "more millionaires and more bankrupts"-and even some Tories characterize him as a "mad monk." Sir Keith readily admits the failings that have made him a bogeyman to the left. "I know I have...
...former member of congress, promised that he would be "the force of change." Not a fiery speaker, his methodical rhetoric came across well on television broadcasts that played an important role in the campaign. Though married to Bucaram's niece, he distanced himself from his radical mentor by scrapping the slogan he used last summer: ROLDÓS IN OFFICE, BUCARAM IN POWER. Roldós' moderate image won over the small but growing middle class. He gained the support of poor peasants and Indians (33% of the population) by pledging to include them in the modest prosperity...
...that anyone doubts Pfeiffer's ability to hold her own in the rough-and-tumble of network politics. She is not just attractive and intelligent. Thomas J. Watson Jr., her boss and mentor at IBM, calls her "brilliant and practical." A West Coast producer, less admiringly, terms her "conservative, moralistic, businesslike and hard." A liberal arts major at the University of Maryland, the Washington, D.C.-born Pfeiffer joined IBM soon after leaving the convent at the age of 23. In her two decades there, she rose from a trainee job to a vice presidency, with a reputation for quick...