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DIVORCED. Malcolm Forbes, 66, ebullient balloonist, motorcyclist, art collector and millionaire chairman and editor in chief of Forbes magazine; and Roberta Laidlaw Forbes, 61; after 39 years of marriage, five children; in Jackson...
...film versions, Ian Fleming's James Bond became Sean Connery. Then Bond turned into Roger Moore. Convinced that Bond was Connery, some moviegoers dismissed Moore as an impostor. Charlton Heston, conversely, performed a miracle of dramatic consolidation in the 1950s and '60s. He became Moses, Ben-Hur, Michelangelo, Andrew Jackson and John the Baptist: everyone this side of God. Heston possessed such brooding gravitas that he could plausibly pass for an abstraction, the decalogue with a strong chin...
Afterward, the couple was to take a tour of "The Treasure Houses of Britain," guided by the gallery's ubiquitous director J. Carter Brown (the only man to be invited to all the black-tie occasions) and Gervase Jackson-Stops, the show's curator. Like dutiful dons, the two men planned to give special emphasis to objects and pictures relating to the Tudor dynasty...
Mead, 26, a recent Yale Law School graduate, is at pains to present a life but at a loss to give it meaning. Instead, his first book invokes appraisals of prominent blacks from Jesse Jackson ("With Joe Louis we had made it from the guttermost to the uttermost") to Conservative Sociologist Thomas Sowell ("Louis was a continuing lesson to white America that to be black did not mean to be a clown or a lout"). But it was another boxer who put the man in true perspective. Muhammad Ali remarked after the funeral, "Howard Hughes dies, with all his billions...
Leonard Peltier is not exactly a household name in the U.S. But in the Soviet Union he ranks right up there with Ronald Reagan and Michael Jackson. While the President is in Geneva, the White House will be deluged with sacks of postcards mailed by readers of the Young Communist League newspaper demanding the release of that "well-known" political prisoner. The paper called on its readers "to raise our voices in defense of the human rights and freedom of those whose only 'fault' is to struggle against the genocide unleashed by U.S. authorities against the native population." Translation...