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Michel's family and friends had traveled from France and other parts near and far to be here for one last goodbye, to stand for a moment of silence in Michel's honor, to watch the color guard present the French flag and to hear the French national anthem played...
Then on Feb. 24, two Brothers' Cessnas were shot down near Cuban airspace. The core group pressed Clinton to respond militarily. Two days later, the President gathered his top national security advisers in the White House Cabinet Room and grilled the Joint Chiefs Chairman, General John Shalikashvili, on whether the U.S. should punish Cuba with a cruise-missile attack or air strikes. The general argued against any military action, and Clinton eventually abandoned the idea. But five days after that, the White House sent a secret note warning Havana that the U.S. would react militarily if more planes were shot...
...office suite in Paris as a pit stop. She finds little use for such captain-of-industry trappings. After consolidating power, the wealthy widow sold off the limousines and the private jet and dispensed with other perks. While Reg was a master of complex financing, Loida keeps a chalkboard near her desk, on which she writes down the names of individual managers along with their assigned tasks, erasing each entry as the job is completed. Says a Beatrice executive: "I can't imagine Reginald Lewis doing that...
Loida Nicolas had just graduated from an elite law school near Manila when she met young Reginald Lewis on a blind date while visiting New York City. She still recalls their romance--from courtship and marriage to dinners with heads of state at their palatial apartment on the Seine--as "breathless, magic." As Reg built his financial empire, first with the leveraged buyout of a radio station, then the McCall Pattern Co. and finally Beatrice, she put her job aside to raise their two daughters. The magic ended when he was stricken by brain cancer...
Standing 50 feet tall, it is a near perfect specimen, Corey said...