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...pension from the Crown. Randall ends his sad, striking account by noting that father and son had only one more tepid meeting, in 1785, although Benjamin lived five years more. The collision, Randall theorizes, was not merely temperamental but genetic. Philosophically, Benjamin the pragmatist and William the stiff-necked legalist could never meet on common ground. More important, both men shared "the single-minded Franklin drive to prevail no matter what the cost." The cost was prohibitive. Perhaps it is just as well that Benjamin is not beside George Washington and Abraham Lincoln on the slopes of Mount Rushmore, after...
...Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, and Romanov, the most likely candidates from the younger generation to succeed to Chernenko's party- leadership job, were prominent at the ceremonies. Even without the ministerial title, Romanov may prove to be a decisive figure in allocating military expenditures and could emerge as stiff competition to Gorbachev, now believed to be the front runner in a future succession race...
...sportsmen are to collecting shiny gewgaws, this is the only athletic mantel piece that would be noticed at Westminster Abbey, and the thought of it cradled under the arm of Flutie, or vice versa, brings a smile. Exactly 25 Ibs. of bronze immortality, the Heisman figurine depicts a stiff-arming ballcarrier, a suggestive pose these past 49 years to a literal-minded electorate that now numbers 1,050 experts, some of whom have seen a college football game this season. Although emblematic of the best player, whatever his position, the Heisman never has exalted an interior lineman, and runners have...
...James Rose, a research director at McDonnell Douglas, the St. Louis-based aerospace company. The Administration has tried to encourage more space investment with tax breaks. It also heavily subsidizes the cost to private companies of launching satellites from the space shuttle. The U.S. Government does so because of stiff foreign competition from Arianespace, a privately owned, but government-subsidized, French-based company that has had three successful launches since May of this year (see following stories...
...robber baron's sharper practices and led eventually to the dismantling of his empire. But as Kathleen Brady, a TIME reporter-researcher, points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time she was a stiff-backed, old-fashioned antisuffragist who easily alternated between exposés of the Beef Trust and fawning profiles of historical heroes (Napoleon, Abraham Lincoln) and even corporate chieftains (U.S. Steel's Elbert Gary, General Electric's Owen Young). With Tarbell-like thoroughness, Brady describes a defiantly single woman wasting...