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...cats. Most recently he photographed the heroic proportions of the U.S. aircraft carrier Carl Vinson by suspending a remote camera from the bow of the ship. Formal weddings are tame by those standards. The subject reminded Leifer of a Norman Rockwell illustration, so he took his camera somewhere it seldom goes -- to a portrait studio. He explained, "Roupen Agopian of the Bachrach studio let me photograph him photographing a young couple. I marveled that he took only 45 minutes to complete the session. I had planned to shoot him for two hours...
...shopping district so hoity-toity that some stores have unlisted telephone numbers, Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills seldom suffers life's gritty turns. But last week terror exploded in that swank precinct. It came in the form of a respectably dressed young man who buzzed his way into the exclusive Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry store, drew a revolver and announced a robbery. When police arrived almost immediately, the gunman took five people hostage. Protected by the store's bulletproof doors and windows, he killed two hostages: Saleswoman Ann Heilperin, 40, shot in the head, and Security Guard William Smith...
Burger, by almost all accounts, was seldom either. In part this was because he was distracted. Burger liked to remind reporters that he was Chief Justice of the U.S., not of just the Supreme Court, and more than any other chief he worked to improve the somewhat rickety administration of the federal courts. His great ambition, which he never realized, was to create a "super court" of appeals to siphon off some of the burgeoning case load of the Supreme Court...
WITH ITS Orwellian name, lofty charge to review the decisions of Harvard's seven-man governing Corporation, and limited authority, the Board of Overseers is regarded widely as a small joke with a big title. The group seldom does anything more substantial than author reports on Harvard's more obscure departments. That's why apathy at first seems. like an appropriate response to the attempts by some administrators to interfere with its up-coming election...
Though their company is highly visible, the Saatchi brothers seldom speak to journalists and almost never pose for photographs. The reclusive Charles drives to his office each day accompanied only by his pet Schnauzer and often spends his lunch break playing chess. "Clients never meet him, and most employees wouldn't recognize him," says one former colleague. He and his wife Doris spend much of their spare time amassing a noted collection of modern...