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...broke the party line, baseball last week hired a black man to be president of the National League. He will preside at owners' meetings, approve players' contracts, supervise the umpires, set proprieties and penalize iniquities. "Whatever historical significance there is in it," said Bill White, 55, a reluctant-sounding pioneer, "if I didn't think I could do this job, I would be foolish to take it. My goal is to be the best president I can be." Of any color...
Hope's successful career, as with most women of her generation, has included its share of tokenism. While Hope maynot consider herself a "pioneer," she is nostranger to being the first woman member oftraditionally all-male institutions...
Trump, the 21st person to be featured in TIME's Profile section, is the department's first cover subject. Since the section was introduced 14 months ago, TIME staffers have traveled to northern India to interview the Dalai Lama, to London to speak with hospice pioneer Cicely Saunders and to Cambridge, England, to explore the cosmos with physicist Stephen Hawking. "Since the magazine's founding, one of TIME's great strengths has been to give readers a very strong and multidimensional look at people," says executive editor Ronald Kriss. "Our aim is not just to chronicle what they...
Jordan does not see his support for Omega Psi Phi as detracting from his goal to be a role model for youngsters of all races. "I try to be seen as Michael Jordan the person, not as black or white," he says. "I guess I am a pioneer, and at some time I may come up against a racial barrier, but at least I have cleared...
...offenses, manipulating stock prices to reap millions of dollars in illicit profits and defraud his clients. The lawsuit portrayed Milken as a zealous dealmaker whose disrespect for tradition led him to disregard the law as well. A suburban Los Angeles native who attended Wharton Business School, Milken was the pioneer of junk bonds as a financing technique for midsize companies and later as the potent fuel for takeovers...