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...cathedral, resting on solid principles but being modified and enriched by later craftsmen. "All government," wrote Burke, "indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter." Many of the modern Presidents who have been hailed by Reagan shared that view. Dwight Eisenhower had an uncanny instinct for outrunning events and using them, hence his proposal for an international agency to guide peaceful development of atomic energy ("atoms for peace") and a scheme to open the U.S. and Soviet Union to mutual military surveillance ("open skies"). "I'm tired of dealing...
...slipped sharply, from more than 300,000 in the 1950s to about 170,000, the afternoon Star was still making a profit. Indeed, it will still be in the black next Monday when it is folded into its sister paper, the morning Tribune (circ. 235,000). Explained Donald Dwight, publisher of both newspapers: "You don't have to be in an absolute loss position to have economic problems...
...came into the spotlight two years ago when Harvard offered the institute directorship to Arnold C. Harberger, a University of Chicago economist. Harberger turned down the post after students protested his alleged ties to authoritarian right wing regimes in Latin America. HIID continued its work under the guidance of Dwight Perkins, a member of the Economics Department and has quietly become on of the must widely respected organizations in international Harvard...
...offset Kissinger in a 707 jet that had been used occasionally by Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy as Air Force One. Though Nixon "was chafing at my growing prominence," writes Kissinger, he approved the trip. Perhaps he hoped that "some spectacular success could demonstrate his indispensability and thereby end his torment." Or perhaps he was simply heeding one of the notes he was making at the time on how to wage a campaign against impeachment; a Jan. 5 entry said, "Act like a President. " First stop, on Jan. 11, was Aswan, some 400 miles south of Cairo...
...Marx Sr., 85, manufacturer and philanthropist; in White Plains, N.Y. The Henry Ford of toymaking, he relied on mass production, underpricing, and a shrewd adapter's eye. Among his discoveries was a Filipino folk toy that in 1928 became the yoyo. A collector of famous friends, notably President Dwight Eisenhower, he aided poor children with 1 million gift toys a year...