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...time we get to the midterm elections in 1990, J. Danforth Quayle will have been elevated to the level of a serious statesman...
...Paul Nitze has played all the positions in the game," Secretary of State George Shultz declared after the Moscow summit this spring. Indeed, the 81- year-old statesman has been involved in every aspect of nuclear-arms control, from his work with the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in 1945, when he went to Hiroshima to calibrate the rubble, to his service as senior arms- control adviser to Shultz and President Reagan. His extraordinary life forms the backbone for an analytic history of the nuclear age by Strobe Talbott, TIME's Washington bureau chief and author of two previous books...
...biographers, William Manchester and Martin Gilbert, look at the statesman who was described as having "lightning in the brain." -- Isaac Bashevis Singer, 84, astonishes with a new novel...
This year's crop of candidates is unusual in that it includes two seniors. Traditionally, the council chairman has been a junior, who steps down to become an elder statesman member during his or her senior year...
...reason to be pessimistic. Last year's team, battered and bruised, should have been nicknamed the Black and Blue, not the Crimson. And maybe the best designation for this year's club is the Green. Yohe, who started only a couple of games in 1986, is an elder statesman on this unit...