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MARTIN DIAMOND, U.S. political scientist (Northern Illinois University): In the last 200 years, Abraham Lincoln, Winston Churchill and James Madison. Lincoln proved that the highest grace can be attained by a person of ordinary origins. Churchill showed that a person from the aristocracy who excelled in all ways could become...
Paul Spyros Sarbanes, 41, calls himself an "urban populist." After a single term in Maryland's House of Delegates, this liberal Democrat toppled 13-term Congressman George Fallen in 1970. A Judiciary Committee member, he was one of only ten Representatives named to a select committee that recently recommended...
Thomas Wyman, 44. Following complaints from black militants, Polaroid Corp.'s senior vice president and general manager developed a widely emulated policy for his firm's South African operation that includes a black education foundation and executive training. "We may not know for 25 years whether our pathetic...
The gushy, superficial image of musical comedy is something Rubins would like to change. His own songs are thoughtful, even melancholy. "In musicals when there's a choice between a clever rhyme and an honest feeling, most people go for the gimmick," he says. "Ideally, musicals should be more than...
Three top posts in Giscard's 15-member Cabinet are held by fellow E.N.A. alumni: Premier Jacques Chirac ('59), Interior Minister Michel Poniatowski ('48) and Finance Minister JeanPierre Fourcade ('54). In addition, Giscard's three key aides are also graduates, as is Chirac's...