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She was a tough, deal-cutting, back-slapping politician, and at the same time a warm, disarmingly rumpled matron. During her 28 years in public life, Connecticut's Ella Grasso never lost an election. In an era when feminism was just beginning to dawn in the male preserve of...
A 5:15 a.m. last Tuesday, as the first rays of morning were beginning to light up midtown Manhattan, 25 tired, unshaven bankers in rumpled business suits stumbled wearily out of the Citicorp Center onto 53rd Street. "Whew," said one as he rubbed his eyes and ran his hands over...
No individual scientist symbolized the new maturity of this arcane art more than Herbert Boyer, 44, a curly-topped, rumpled-looking biochemist at the University of California at San Francisco. In the 1960s Boyer was taking part in antiwar protests in the streets of Berkeley. Last year he led a...
As a young spymaster for the U.S. in World War II, he wore Navy blues that were usually spotted with crumbs, peanut butter and cigarette ashes. But behind that disheveled appearance lay a keen and free-wheeling mind that, by war's end, enabled him to put together a...
That power is an unaccustomed blessing for N.R. The fiesty little journal of opinion has spent most of its 25 years on the edge of financial collapse, making up each year's deficits -some as high as $500,000 -with regular eleventh-hour fund appeals and occasional subventions from...