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The longtime Oregon senator was a bedrock of moderate Republicanism. He was a devout Christian who opposed prayer in the public schools and managed to negotiate common ground among the environmentalists, loggers, anti-abortion activists, death penalty foes, business owners, farmers and antiwar protesters who were his constituents. The NFL player, who was the No.
Later, he appeared in popular beer commercials and acted in films and on TV. She also was an executive in filmmaker James L. He became the first foreign-born chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and guided military and humanitarian efforts in the post-Cold War era of the s.
President Clinton appointed him ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Above, with his granddaughter Cheryl Segal in The British painter, whose works are highly prized by collectors, created subjects in anguished, anti-erotic poses.
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The former first lady captivated the nation with her unabashed candor and forthright discussion of her personal battles with breast cancer , prescription drug addiction and alcoholism. Williams spent more than six decades in pro baseball, signing with the Brooklyn Dodgers on the day he graduated from Pasadena High in As a manager he also won pennants with the Red Sox and Padres.
In his final years, stricken by dementia, he became a symbol of the brutality of football. The internationally renowned American artist, whose work blurred the boundaries of painting, drawing and handwritten poetry, was recognized with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg as one of the three most important American artists to emerge in the s. Above, the artist at the Louvre, where he designed and painted the ceiling of a large gallery of bronze sculptures last year. The gravel-voiced Falk had a more than year acting career that spanned movies, stage and TV.
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The legendary Norwegian runner became the face of the New York City Marathon , winning the race nine times. She also set four marathon world records. Full obituary Notable film and television deaths of File photo. The scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for the first studies to explain the chemistry of boron, in particular the combinations of boron and hydrogen called boranes. The son of Groucho Marx went his own way with his career, becoming a TV writer, playwright and celebrity biographer; but his favorite, recurring subject was his famous father.
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Tours and Concerts. By Bruce Sylvester It was the late s when Roy Orbison met, quickly fell in love with and wed with his second wife, Barbara Annemarie Wellhoener Jakobs, the teenage daughter of a successful German dress manufacturer. By Mike Greenblatt. By Goldmine staff. By Patrick Prince. Music News. By Goldmine Staff. By Frank Daniels. By Warren Kurtz. Roy Orbison died of a heart attack in at the age of 52, in the midst of a comeback with supergroup The Traveling Wilburys.
Lisa Swayze, family friend and widow of late actor Patrick Swayze, said her heart went out to the Orbison family. Now we have lost this wonderful lady," she said. Barbara met her husband in when she was 17 years old and Orbison was They married nine months later.
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