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Despite his hard-earned riches. Filion's only outward signs of wealth are his Capital Hill Farms in Lachute, Quebec, a blue and white Fleetwood Eldorado, a flashy mod wardrobe and a $400 toupee that he wore when Canadian Governor General Roland Michener presented him with the nation's highest civilian honor, the Medal of Service Award...
...widely regarded as brilliant, with a bureaucrat's invaluable-and rare-capacity both to retain intricate detail and discard unproductive trivia, keeping basic goals in focus. His aim at HEW, he explained, was "to get away from the hypnotic absorption in tending the machinery and to look outward at what is happening to people." Richardson not only contends that HEW, which has 280 programs and a budget larger than that of the Pentagon, can be managed but also that he proved it in his two years as its head. His associates tend to agree and praise him further...
...light façades of glass. Breuer took this cold idiom and domesticated it in his first building, a house in Wiesbaden. Flat-topped, generously windowed and raised on stilts above the ground, it used contrasted materials to give a feeling of warmth and porches to extend interior space outward...
...this seems to confirm Fordham Anthropologist Warren Swidler's observation that Mead's "private life has been a shambles; she's not been very happy, so she's gone outward. Much as she loves people, her great commitment is to science." Then how does Mead, with a disordered personal life, presume to counsel the young? The answer may well be that the same hurts that motivated Mead to achievement gave her the insights necessary to help others...
...From all outward appearances, Manhattan's Wall Street, Chicago's La Salle Street, San Francisco's Montgomery Street and other financial districts should be cheerful places. Since the beginning of the year, the Dow Jones industrial average has repeatedly bounced to near-record levels, propelled largely by recurrent talk of peace in Viet Nam. Though stock prices remained relatively flat after last week's news of a tentative settlement between Hanoi and Washington, many market analysts still hope that the Dow will quickly pierce the magic 1,000 mark once a Viet Nam cease-fire...