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...laserlike intellect radiated from behind his clear-rimmed glasses with an intensity as hot as his smile was cold. Had he been half as smart, he might have been a great man. Instead, McGeorge Bundy, who died last week in Boston of a heart attack at 77, came to personify the hubris of an intellectual elite that marched America with a cool and confident brilliance into the quagmire of Vietnam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST: MCGEORGE BUNDY, 1919-1996 | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...would see him ghosting through airports from time to time, and when one's eyes would lock on his for an instant, in recognition, Agnew's face would flicker with a secret, wolfish, almost subliminal smile. Then he would turn and disappear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NAYSAYER TO THE NATTERING NABOBS | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

...this all very seriously, with everyone surreptitiously watching to see how he would react to the obvious teasing about all the money he was getting to study the desperately poor," says Skocpol. "And then, suddenly, just as the 'YOU' and the handshake occurred...[Wilson] broke out into a huge smile, one of the biggest I have ever seen him give...

Author: By Mattthew W. Granade, | Title: A Controversial Scholar, Wilson Breaks Ground | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

...said that although Fokin did not speak during his shows, "he made thousands of people smile. He didn't have to tell jokes. He just was himself. He'd turn on the music, and a crowd would form. He'd hold them enraptured for 25 minutes. He didn't have to ask for money. They just gave...

Author: By Lori I. Diamond, | Title: Popular Russian Puppeteer Dies | 9/24/1996 | See Source »

...computer. With his partner L.J. Sevin, he helped launch Silicon Valley legends such as Lotus Development, Cypress Semiconductor, Borland International and an outfit called Compaq, the world's largest personal-computer maker. He's still chairman. "My brother has done pretty well for himself," says Harold with a smile. Little brother is worth about $100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHAT'S DRIVING THE ROSEN BOYS? | 9/23/1996 | See Source »

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