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After getting degrees from Notre Dame and Georgetown University Law Center, the New York-born Sears joined Richard Nixon's Manhattan law firm in 1965. He soon impressed Nixon with his political instincts and was enlisted in the campaign. After Nixon won the presidency, Sears fell out of favor with the White House staff because he retained close ties with people outside Nixon's inner circle -and was even wiretapped as a suspected source of press leaks. He now feels some regret over his role in helping Nixon win. During the 1976 campaign, Sears' tendency to drink...
Friends of Civiletti, 44, a prematurely graying father of three teenagers, do not disagree with that self-effacing assessment. It is the professionalism of the soft-spoken New York-born lawyer that his colleagues at the Justice Department most admire. He had been personally plucked out of a successful law practice in Baltimore by Georgian Charles Kirbo, President Carter's top preInauguration adviser, to head the department's criminal division. In his service there, Civiletti won praise as a "lawyers' lawyer" who believed in strong preparation for building criminal cases that would stand up in court...
Much of the credit (or blame) for this new Carter image belongs to Gerald Rafshoon, 44, the well-tailored, curly-haired, New York-born adman who has worked in every Carter campaign since 1966. After unofficially advising Carter since the Inauguration, he joined the White House's senior staff in July. As the $56,000-a-year Assistant to the President for Communications, Rafshoon has the job of improving the public's perception of his boss. He follows in the footsteps of such presidential image burnishers as Truman's Leonard Reinsch, Eisenhower's James Hagerty...
...ardent fans in filmdom, Begelman is a show-biz wizard who helped save a major studio from bankruptcy. To his enemies, he is a relentless competitor whose prominence and prestige reflect the mercenary standard of Hollywood. New York-born and Yale-educated, Begelman elbowed his way into entertainment as an agent. Among his early clients was Judy Garland; in 1967 she and her husband Sid Luft brought legal action against Begelman and his then partner Freddie Fields for misdirecting part of Judy's earnings into their own pockets. Judy dropped the suit a year later, but Luft remains bitter...
...course, primarily a sports palace, and team owners love the place. Barry Mendelson, 34, New York-born executive vice president of the Jazz, points out that "there was no real longtime legacy of pro basketball in the South." Yet the club has broken N.B.A. attendance records five times. The football Saints, whose mundane performance on the field is partially offset by their spectacular half-time shows, are also incurable domophiles. and have a ten-year lease on the Poydras palazzo...