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...protégé of the late Senator Hubert Humphrey, Lord, 64, was appointed to the federal bench in 1966. He has been a hero to environmentalists since the mid-'70s, when he presided over a case involving charges that the Reserve Mining Co. had been polluting Lake Superior. Lord was eventually removed from that case after a higher court accused him of "gross bias" against the company. In another case that had ecologists cheering, the judge refused to permit a trapping season for Minnesota's Eastern timber wolf; the decision caused considerable upset among farmers, who maintained...
Whether Chernenko will use that power any differently is another matter entirely. As a protégé of former Soviet Leader Leonid Brezhnev, he may believe in détente. His gesture on chemical weapons was encouraging, but it is too soon to make any sure judgments. Says a senior Disarmament Agency official: "Let's see how they follow up. The Soviets have a way of making a two-step look like a ballet." -By Evan Thomas. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/ Moscow and Barrett Seaman/ Washington...
Rock's quiet manner often intimidates strangers and can daunt even close friends. Says one associate: "I was scared to death of him for the first ten years I knew him." Nevertheless, Rock has a thoughtful paternal side, which he shows particularly to favored protégés. He includes them in attractive deals and cautions them against squandering their fortunes by selling their stock too early. In December 1982, he treated Apple Chairman Steven Jobs, 28, to his first opera, Tosca...
...York federal court, Thayer resigned as the Pentagon's No. 2 man. Thayer termed the charges "entirely without merit" and vowed to fight them. At week's end his replacement had been named: William Howard Taft IV, the self-effacing chief counsel of the Defense Department, a protégé of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and great-grandson of the 27th President...
Unlike P.X. Dunlop, his rival and former mentor, DelCorso does not doctor his work for effects. He believes that to dodge in shadows or turn bright noon into a moody twilight is to romanticize war's brutality. Dunlop, on the other hand, brands his ex-protégé's snapshots sensationalist. Author Caputo clearly sides with DelCorso and with an ethic that combines the redeeming social value of photography with the woozier aspects of Zen: "His intimacy with his camera had to be such that his use of it at the decisive instant was reflex action...