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Died. David E. Finley, 86, the soft-spoken South Carolina lawyer who was the planner and first director (1938-1956) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.; at his home in Georgetown. The idea, the money-and the first great collection for the gallery-came from Steel Magnate Andrew W. Mellon, who as Secretary of the Treasury in 1927 and later as Ambassador to Great Britain had taken on Finley as his most trusted associate. The enormous marble museum opened in 1941, and Finley persuaded other great collectors, notably Samuel Kress, Lessing Rosenwald and Peter and Joseph Widener...
Plans for the transition to the remodeled station would place a temporary station at the Eliot Street MBTA yards across Boylston St. from Eliot House, Christopher Dame, a land use planner for the Cambridge Development Department, said Wednesday...
...into the Kennedy Administration where he served in a variety of Defense Department positions. By 1968 Vance had become convinced that the time had arrived for negotiations and he served as one of America's top diplomats at the Paris peace talks. Throughout the entire period, both as war planner and negotiator, Vance strengethened his reputation for technical competence but could not be branded as either a hawk or a dove. That is an achievement of sorts, but not one to inspire security or confidence...
...which countries should no longer receive military hardware. Similarly, in his introductory press conference, Vance emphasized the importance of a "concern, and a deep concern for human rights and the problem of human rights" as a guiding principle in American foreign policy. But given his record as a war planner during the Vietnam years, the latter statement seems conspicuously phrased to offer more a prompted declaration of loyalty to Carter's campaign promises than a substantive measure of personal belief...
...Hsien-nien, 69, senior Vice Premier and, until his promotion last year, China's Finance Minister. Li remains the country's chief economic planner. Some China watchers anticipated that Li would be named Premier, but Hua, at least for now, holds that job as well as the party chairmanship...