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DIED. VERNON WALTERS, 85, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who served seven Presidents; in West Palm Beach, Fla. He helped craft the Marshall Plan and used his fluency in eight languages to open doors for U.S. intelligence. A deputy CIA chief for Nixon, he once translated an address for the visiting Charles de Gaulle, who later told Nixon, "You gave a magnificent speech--but your interpreter was eloquent...
...When the couple read a treatment by Steve Rivele and Chris Wilkinson (Nixon), Lonnie sent back two requests. "One was that we be respectful to the women in Ali's life," says Rivele. "The other was to make it clear that he'd never done a bit of housework in his life." The initial screenplay, which Gregory Allen Howard (Remember the Titans) delivered in 1996, offered this fascinating insight: "The key to Ali's life was his relationship with his father, who ignored him," says Howard. "It explains his need to please older men like Malcolm X, Elijah Muhammad, Howard...
...lawmakers and staff members preparing questions for Lay wonder how he is going to explain away all the evidence to the contrary. Lay's claim of ignorance is "as implausible as imagining that Richard Nixon did not know what was being done by his staff at Watergate," says David Beim, a professor of economics and finance at Columbia University Business School...
...scandal may prove to be systemic in a broader sense. For reasons that are well understood--the years of turmoil between John Kennedy's assassination and Richard Nixon's resignation, the end of the cold war, the absence of a sustained national emergency that required a strong Federal Government--the authority of the American political process has been in a long decline. At the same time, the reputation of U.S. business leaders has grown extraordinarily. In the 1980s and '90s, Lee Iaccoca, Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Jack Welch and their ilk became our new heroes. Businessmen seemed...
DIED. JOHN ARTHUR LOVE, 85, former Republican Governor of Colorado and, under Richard Nixon, the nation's first energy czar; in Denver. Love, first elected in 1963 with scant political experience, served a record 10 years. He lured many businesses to Colorado, but as a moderate often differed with fellow Republicans on the environment and abortion...