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Walker combines the oldtime lobbying techniques of banter and booze with an ability to explain complex issues on the back of an envelope. Jerry Ford once wrote him: "You can explain economics so that even somebody's mother-in-law can understand...
This defender of American capitalism was born 54 years ago in Graham, Texas, 90 miles northwest of Fort Worth. His mother named him Charls Edward Walker, vainly hoping that the unusual spelling of his first name would keep him from being "Charlie." He went to the universities of Texas and Pennsylvania, where he earned his doctorate in economics. After working as a Federal Reserve Bank economist, he became an assistant to Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson in 1959. From 1961 to 1968, while the Democrats were in power, Walker served as executive vice president of the American Bankers Association. He moved...
...Kauzov's recall to Moscow last fall. Christina pursued Kauzov with phone calls, telex messages and couriers, and a visit to Moscow late last year. Meanwhile, Sergei filed for divorce from his cellist-wife Natasha, gave her custody of their nine-year-old daughter, and moved in with his mother. In June, Christina told U.S. Oil Magnate Armand Hammer, a longtime family friend, that she was off to Moscow again, this time to marry Kauzov...
Such family nurture is the province of the Mormon woman. "Because they are expected to be a mother of eight, a charming hostess, the perfect housekeeper with no help, and supportive of their husbands in all things, there's a lot of stress," says Mormon Housewife Mona Daniels. The church is honoring its women with a new sculpture garden at a restored village in Nauvoo, Ill., one of the Midwestern communities where raging mobs drove out the Mormons in the mid-19th century after Prophet Smith was shot to death. Despite the gesture, the church is adamantly opposed...
...married to a novelist who boozes because her reviews are better than his; an actress (Kristin Griffith) who can only get parts on TV; and a young woman (Marybeth Hurt) with the spirit of an artist, but no gift for any particular art. Late in life father has divorced mother, who grows more visibly dotty as the knowledge sinks in that he will never return; indeed, he has taken up with a sensible widow (Maureen Stapleton) whom the kids hate despite (really because of) her warmth...