Busy Diplomat Reginald Bartholomew Dies at 76

Reginald Bartholomew, a diplomat and ambassador who has served four presidents, negotiated nuclear disarmament with the Soviet Union and for the protection of U.S. military bases in Europe and survived an assassination attempt when he was ambassador to Lebanon in 1984, died Sunday in Manhattan.

The cause was cancer, said his wife, Rose Anne.

Mr. Bartholomew had spent 15 years advising presidents and secretaries of state, and parachuting in places like Moscow and Cyprus to extinguish fires diplomatic when he received his first assignment as ambassador in 1983, in Lebanon.

It was a refined political detachment. The day after arriving this October, the Marine barracks was bombed by terrorists, killing 241 people. Mr. Bartholomew was shot the scene the next day, his job complete.

The violence increased pressure from the U.S. to withdraw its troops. Mr. Bartholomew argued strongly against the idea. President Reagan delay the deportation order until February 1984.

In the same year, terrorists bombed the U.S. Embassy in East Beirut about new construction that was built to replace a bombed last year. Nine people were killed. Mr. Bartholomew was removed from the rubble, but not seriously injured, needed stitches and a cast on his arm.

Mr. Bartholomew has been in Lebanon for two years and was often forced to leave for security reasons. His followers often met firearm during a trip to the country with their personal safety "militia" as he and the name of his wife, leaning over the car windows with automatic weapons to return fire.

George P. Shultz, secretary of state at the time, of which Mr. Bartholomew as "the best" in the diplomatic corps.

In 1986, Mr. Bartholomew was appointed ambassador to Spain, where he led negotiations to maintain a military presence greatly reduced. He had worked in similar negotiations before and after would, in its final place, Italy, where he served as ambassador in 1993 and 1997.

"It's been very difficult," said Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times reporter, who also worked with Mr. Bartholomew Departments of Defense and State. "We wanted the basics, and foreign leaders wanted to prove that they were tough. They do not want their people to believe in the United States of its property."

He added, referring to Mr. Bartholomew:. "It would have been impolite, and a lot of diplomats are not so clumsy said:" I know you have your political problems, but try to find ways to keep the bases and deal with their political problems. '"

In 1964 took positions in government and in European education at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Mr. Gelb was teaching there at the time, and they became friends.

Mr. Gelb went to work as a political consultant for the Pentagon in 1967, and convinced Mr. Bartholomew to join them next year. Both then moved to and from different departments in different roles, with Mr. Bartholomew works at the National Security Council during the Carter administration and was succeeded by Mr. Gelb as director of political-military affairs at the Department of State.

Mr. Bartholomew has played a key role in the SALT II arms limitation with the Soviet Union in 1979. After his stay in Spain, he returned to Washington to serve as Secretary of Security Affairs with Secretary of State James A. Baker III.

Years before, Mr. Bartholomew was an assistant secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. A senior military official said Mr. Kissinger requested Mr. Bartholomew meetings in European politics.

"I realized quickly," the official said in an email to Mr. Gelb, "was an indispensable man."

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Pulitzer-Prize Winning Reporter Malcolm W. Browne Dies at 81

Malcolm W. Browne, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for four decades of his career, which included covering the Vietnam War - and make one of the most memorable images of the conflict - and a lively second act, as a science that explains chemical weapons and describing the increase in the synthesis of body parts, died Monday in Hanover, NH

The cause was complications of Parkinson's disease, said his wife, Le Lieu Browne.

Mr. Browne, who lived in Thetford Center, Vermont, Manhattan and has spent most of his career writing for the New York Times, which sent him to Argentina, Vietnam, Bosnia, Pakistan, where his curiosity the name has become a science writer at the end of 1970.

"My life is exceptional," Browne said in an interview in 1993. "It provides the widest variety of experiences. This, after all, why I became a journalist."

However, his career was somewhat of an accident.

Mr. Browne had worked as a chemist in New York in 1950 (one of his tasks: finding a substitute for gum, the main ingredient in chewing gum), when he was recruited to go to Korea in 1956. He drove a tank for a while, but the army has assigned later to write for The Stars and Stripes, a decision he said it was his idea, not hers.

After being discharged, Mr. Browne found a job in Baltimore with The Associated Press. Less than a year later, in 1961, the AP Saigon made its head office.

Mr. Browne was one of the journalists who have become more skeptical of American efforts to support the government of Saigon.

Neil Sheehan, who joined The Times, after serving as Saigon bureau chief of United Press International, said Tuesday that Mr. Browne was a "fierce competitor", but also a friend. Mr. Browne often wore a belt buckle of gold, and wearing a money belt so you should have cash "to get out of a difficult situation."

"But," said Mr. Sheehan: "I do not think I've ever had to use."

While journalists in Vietnam often clashed with U.S. officials, Mr. Browne later identified Henry Cabot Lodge, who arrived in 1963 as U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam as "more honest than most U.S. officials I had known. "

E 'was that Mr. Lodge said Browne, who had played an important role in raising awareness of the problems in Vietnam at the highest levels at the White House through a photograph taken in 1963.

When a Buddhist Monaco was set on fire in public in the same year in protest at the government of South Vietnam, Mr. Browne was the only journalist there, and captured the stunning moment in a photograph.

Several studies, including The Times, decided not to run the disturbing image, but Mr. Lodge said he had seen a copy on the desk of President John F. Kennedy.

In 1964, while working for the AP, Mr. Browne shared the Pulitzer Prize for international reports David Halberstam, who covered the war for The Times.

Mr. Browne returned to the U.S. and then joined the Times, which eventually sent to Vietnam. Then go find the sources that had developed in the forefront refuted optimistic accounts of the government of Saigon.

"A spokesman for the South Vietnamese Army, said in an afternoon press conference in Saigon that the elements formed by the soldiers in the air, supported by tanks, entered Quangtri city early yesterday morning," he wrote in a report in 1972. "However, authoritative sources in the reception said that was not true."

Browne also worked for a time in South America, Europe, Southeast Asia and elsewhere before he began writing about science. He studied chemistry as an undergraduate at Swarthmore College.

Their tasks vary widely: the dangers posed by toxic waste drop the space shuttle Challenger, an effort to build a robot flying pterosaur, an effort to rid the trash Antarctica accumulate there.

He left the Times in 1980 to work for Discover magazine, but returned a few years later and continued to write science.

In 2000, after retiring to Vermont, Mr. Browne wrote an essay for The Times the dual nature of his journalistic career.

"After 'time, a news writer may begin to feel a sort of monotony in most of the events that pass as news," he wrote. "When this happens the lucky few of us to discover that in science, almost unique among human activities, there is always something new under the sun."

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Pioneer of Artificial Heart David Lederman Dies at 68

David M. Lederman, who led the team of scientists who developed the first artificial heart implanted at all - which, although they have had limited success, we must advance in the treatment of advanced heart disease - died on August 15 home in Marblehead, Mass.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, his son, Jonathan said.

Dr. Lederman, an aerospace engineer, founded a small company called Abiomed in 1981, hoping to prolong life by providing a greater degree of independence for the severely weakened heart patients waiting for a transplant.

Working with Dr. Robert Kung, chief scientific officer of the company, brought together a research team (including aerospace engineers by the way) who designed the AbioCor.

A grapefruit-sized device that replaces a sick heart, the AbioCor has no wires or pipes that pass through the skin. When implemented, a coil transfers power from the charging device and the skin from the outside. An internal battery and a controller that controls and regulates the heart implanted in the abdomen.

The AbioCor is very different from the first Total Artificial Heart, the Jarvik-7, designed by Dr. Robert Jarvik, who asked the tubes that carry the patient to a small compressor fridge which was implanted in Dr. Barney Clark in "University of Utah, December 1982.

Even this is the distinction between the AbioCor artificial heart and other plant, SynCardia, which is also powered by an air compressor outside the body.

Only 14 of the devices were implanted AbioCor, during clinical trials, 2001-2004, the longest surviving recipient 512 days. In comparison, the SynCardia with its out-of-body halter, has been implemented in more than 1,000 patients, with the longest surviving 1374 days.

One problem with the AbioCor is too big to be in many patients. Abiomed AbioCor II is developed, which is a third smaller than the original and designed to last up to five years.

However, the original device had a significant impact on cardiology. "Despite the fact that the AbioCor has not been used in a large number of patients, has paved the way for further development of fully autonomous artificial heart technology," Dr. Kathy point, a spokeswoman for the American Association Heart and director of cardiology services for women in St John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California, said.

Dr. A. Lame Gray Jr., professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Louisville with Dr. Robert D. Dowling made the first AbioCor system in 2002, agreed. "The importance is that it was totally implantable and gave people a better quality of life," he said, adding that among the most recent is a left ventricular device, "which is widely used today as bridge to transplant. "

According to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which manages the national transplant system, 3254 patients waiting for a new heart, and that the year 1045 was donated hearts. It was not possible to determine how many of those patients waiting for a transplant are compatible with devices that have been developed from the AbioCor.

When it was invented by Dr. Gray said: "Never's been a more sophisticated device implanted in a human being."

Dr. Lederman had a great vision for your business. In a 2003 interview with CBS News, said: "There is no reason that a person has died when his heart stops If the brain of the person and the body is in good shape, because people has died.? "

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A Shaper of Channel 13 Robert Kotlowitz Dies at 87

Robert Kotlowitz, author and publisher, who reluctantly became manager of public television in 1971 and has continued to develop the line of homegrown and imported shows - including "The Report MacNeil / Lehrer," "Live at the Met" "Dance in America" ??and "Brideshead Revisited" - which represent a high point of American television, died Saturday at home in Manhattan.

The cause was prostate cancer, his son Alex said.

Mr. Kotlowitz had just resigned as editor of Harper, in a battle with the new owners for editorial control, when John Jay Iselin, the new president's main public television stations in the country, Channel 13 in New York, offered job.

"Like what?" I've never been in a TV studio, "said Kotlowitz asked in an interview with Channel 13. Mr. Iselin said, he replied:" You will be the editor. "

"Why?" Mr. Kotlowitz hesitant to ask.

"We'll see," said Iselin.

Mr. Kotlowitz, who was senior vice president of programming and distribution, and has remained on channel 13 until his retirement in 1990, was known as a kind of minister of Culture and home to some of the most ardent advocate Mr. Iselin's most ambitious decisions.

Ist proposed an evening news half an hour with Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil in 1973, after the couple had anchored public television coverage of Senate Watergate hearings.

The agreement has been difficult, but largely thanks to the tenacity of Mr. Kotlowitz met two years later as "The Report MacNeil / Lehrer." The program, which was seen across the country since December 1975, now known as "PBS NewsHour."

In 1981, when Channel 13 had financial problems, Mr. Kotlowitz convinced Mr. Iselin invest $ 500,000 in a series produced by Granada Television in England. The series "Brideshead Revisited," based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, has become one of the most successful television audiences.

Mr. Kotlowitz played a similar role in introducing the audience to "Monty Python Flying Circus", a live performance at New York City Ballet and the Philharmonic Orchestra of New York, "Bill Moyers Journal" and "Nature".

Mr. MacNeil, who became a friend, said Mr. Kotlowitz aesthetic sensibility deeply influenced PBS programming. "He had innate good taste, and a deep familiarity with literature and art in all its forms," ??said MacNeil said in an interview.

Before the advent of cable, when public television was one of the only alternatives to the speed of the network in many small towns, he added, "Bob was what brought people to opera, ballet The New York Philharmonic. "

In a review in the Washington Post Book World "Somewhere Else," Michele Murray that Mr. Kotlowitz by Isaac Bashevis Singer. "He made the best singer in 'The Manor' and 'The Farm', he wrote," to explain what is essentially the same story of the breakdown of the traditional life of communities isolated Jewish shtetl in Poland. "

In addition to his son, Alex, Mr. Kotlowitz survivors include another son, Dan, a sister, Elaine Magarill, and four grandchildren. His wife, Billie Kotlowitz Leibowitz, who died in 1994.

Mr. Kotlowitz told interviewers that while he was not looking for a job in public television, glad that he was ahead. The work, he said in the interview with Channel 13, took him to the arena of the great pleasures of life: music, art, books, nature, history, current events.

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Liberal Party Power Broker Raymond Harding Dies at 77

Raymond B. Harding, former leader of the Liberal Party of New York, which has advanced the careers of mayors and governors, but fell into disfavor in the corruption scandal that toppled the state comptroller, Alan G. Hevesi, died Thursday in the Bronx.

The cause was cancer, said his son Robert.

Mr. Smith came to the Balkans, as a child, a Jewish refugee during the war, the father was beaten by the Nazis. His family survived the camps and a dangerous journey across the Atlantic with a gauntlet of attack submarines.

As a teenager, he got his new American name of a favorite radio program, "said David Smith, CounterSpy." He is a lawyer and became a protégé of Alex Rose, the legendary founder of the Liberal Party.

And from his rise to power in 1977 to his political death, when the Liberals lost their ballot line in 2002, Mr. Smith was one of the corridors of power entrepreneurs of the state, with his party small, but influential in helping to elect Mario M. Cuomo as governor, Rudolph W. Giuliani as mayor, Mr. Hevesi as the city and the state controller, and many other public officials.

Instead, Mr. Smith, a brave, smoking a cigarette behind the scenes tactics approval remained alive long after his party critics called irrelevant, has gained power and patronage. Taking advantage of his influence in City Hall and in Albany, said a high profile, government jobs to his allies, including his two sons, and builds extraordinary profits for themselves.

In 2009, however, pleaded guilty to charges of receiving $ 800,000 for favors to Mr. Hevesi - a fictitious agent for members of the driver to get lucrative contracts to manage $ 141 billion state pension fund and intrigues for a seat in the Assembly of State for the son of Mr. Hevesi.

Mr. Smith has worked with the state investigation that led to the arrest of Mr. Hevesi and others. The criminal charges against Mr. Smith fell, and his own conviction in 2011 in a unique crime number was saved from prison and allowed to remain with the money he had taken. But it was a stunning humiliation for one of the last political leader of New York days old.

Like his predecessor, Mr. Rose, Mr. Smith helped the Republicans and Democrats elected, taking advantage of the small liberal party members - only 1 percent of the electoral lists - something more important: a second place to vote for candidates who thus acquired an undeserved approval times as progressives. It also gave voters a disgruntled liberal Democrat and Republican, to appease their consciences.

Since New York is one of the few states that allow a candidate the votes are added as a candidate, the parties have little influence beyond all measure, because supporting candidates or get support.

In turn, are guaranteed a line to the next statewide ballot, if they receive at least 50,000 votes. Playing both ends against the middle, Mr. Smith might be a maker of kings and the orchestration of the survival of his party.

For students of politics, watching the maneuver Harding was a rite of the season in New York elections. He took the crown of tin capo political flavor: an overweight chin, with heavy eyelids, fingers stained yellow from unfiltered Camel, a booming voice, the eyes with sunglasses that many are intimidating. He was suddenly, and often spoke as if the writing aloud titles Tabloids - "LP" for the game, "libs" for the faithful.

Harding was a collaborator of L. Governor Hugh Carey 1975-1977. He became the leader of the Liberal Party after the 1976 death of Mr. Rose, who founded the party in 1944 with a program to keep Republicans and liberal Democrats honest.

The party helped the election of Democrat Robert F. Wagner and Republican John V. Lindsay, as mayors, Republican Jacob K. Javits as senator, Democrat Edward I. Koch as a young congressman, and Mr. Carey and Mr. Cuomo, both Democrats, as governors.

Mr. Smith has never been elected to any office and has had little use for ideology. An old joke was that the Liberal Party was neither liberal nor a party. He carried out without primary or convention and its candidates had a few.

Harding has decided that the Democrats or Republicans, to support in order to earn your patronage and rewards. His title was also a fiction: the vice president with absolute power, the president of being a figurehead.

His smartest decision that was said to have been his first embrace of Mr. Giuliani, a Republican, Democrat, David N. Dinkins for mayor in 1989. Mr. Dinkins won that election, but after Mayor Giuliani won in 1993.

Mr. Smith took advantage of a pressure group and employment guarantees for their children, Robert, as director of budget and the deputy mayor, and Russell, as Head of Housing and Development Corporation, although he was a deserter from the university with no experience in housing. But in 2005, Russell Smith was sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling $ 400,000 from the agency.

Asked about criticism from Democrats for backing Giuliani, Mr. Smith said: "Political parties serve a purpose The purpose of the Liberal Party at that time was to save and restore this great city, and has done so. Ask the leadership of Giuliani. "

The leader of the Liberal Party, was born Helen Marie Branko Hochwald Hochwald and January 31, 1935, in Herzegovina. While World War II he moved through the Balkans, the father was attacked by the Nazis and the family fled to Italy in 1941, taking refuge in a refugee camp in Calabria.

Jewish immigration in times of war the U.S. has been virtually banned in 1944 but were among the 1,000 Jewish refugees Hochwald granted safe haven by President Franklin D. Roosevelt - the only large group of Jews admitted during the war - as told in the book "Haven", a press photographer Ruth Gruber.

Raymond graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School in 1953 and City College in 1957 with a degree in political science. After his military service as an infantry officer, he earned a degree in law at the University of New York in 1961.

Besides his sons, Mr. Smith is survived by his wife of 55 years, the former Elisabeth Einhorn, and two grandchildren.

He practiced law for five years between 1966 and 1969 was the city attorney, research inspectors damaged buildings. In 1975, he joined the staff of Governor Carey as disaster coordinator, military adviser and legislative liaison.

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Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci Dies at 94

Ruggiero Ricci, a violin virtuoso who first shocked audiences at the age of 10 years with his mastery of Mendelssohn and was later transformed into a mature musician, the scope has reached the 19 Caprices of acrobatics century Paganini premieres of contemporary works, died Sunday at home in Palm Springs, California

His death was confirmed by his son, Gian-Franco.

Mr. Ricci has grown up in San Francisco, the son of an Italian immigrant and amateur trombonist, who insisted that their seven children to learn to play instruments. Mr. Ricci prefers the piano, but her parents had other plans.

"I was bribed with violins," he told The New York Times in 1976. "I woke in the morning and there would be another. I once had five violins under my bed."

At 6, Ruggiero went to classes with Louis Persinger, who also taught another district prodigy, Yehudi Menuhin.

"If not for Menuhin, I would not be here," said Ricci. "It's four years older than me, and everyone should think about miracles. But believe me, when you're a miracle, a parent is ambitious in the background."

She made her debut in San Francisco in 1928, playing the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor, and very soon on tour in New York and Europe. The critics were enthusiastic when Mendelssohn played in Manhattan in 1929.

"More of a young gentleman, who has played with speed and accuracy through these steps, and have been inflated by the press and soon disappeared forever," wrote Olin Downes in The Times. "But there are valid reasons to believe that heard the previous night and had the talent to mature in terms of physical force and poetic expression, taste, feeling and an admirable sense of proportion are the distinctive qualities the performance of last night. "

The article described Ruggiero 9 years. It was actually 11, but its promoters was shaving two years old to make it look even more precocious. It was not the only way that his identity had been manipulated.

His parents originally named Woodrow Wilson Rico, but then gave his name sounds Italian, because it seemed a better choice for a musical prodigy. During his lifetime he was called Roger.

"Until the year 1950 or 1960, his passport, he said 'Rich Wilson, also known as Ruggiero Ricci,'" said Gian-Franco Ricci.

In 1930, after Roger had moved to New York with Mr. Persinger and began to gain substantial salary for the operation, has become the center of a custody dispute highly advertising. Years before, his father, Peter Ricci, had custody of Roger and his brother George to an assistant of Mr. Persinger, Beth Lackey.

(George, called the birth of George Washington, he continued his studies to become a cellist.) At some point the boys ran away from Mrs. Lackey, Peter Ricci and later successfully fought to regain custody of Children. But his son did not trust his motives, and often said his father was trying to exploit.

As Ruggiero later in his teens, some critics have suggested that their technical skills was exceeding its capacity to interpret. However, it was precisely at this time that Mr. Ricci began to dominate the music that would later help him revive his career: the 24 Caprices of Paganini's works for solo violin and fire of daunting.

He played the pieces frequently during World War II, alone on stage in front of the soldiers, while he served as an "entertainment specialist" in the Army Air Force. After the war he became the first to register works only in 1947.

"I am forced in this direction, because no one had taken this path," said the Times. "I had to make a comeback."

He turned and almost always taught in the next five years, working at Indiana University, Juilliard and elsewhere, and performing a wide repertoire that included Paganini, as well as works by Bach and other composers .

In 1963, he performed the premiere of Alberto Ginastera Concerto for Violin and Orchestra with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic, which commissioned the work for the opening of Lincoln Center this year. He made over 500 recordings. His last public performance was at the Smithsonian Institution in 2003.

Mr. Ricci was born on July 24, 1918, in San Francisco. His father had emigrated to Italy and worked as a miner in Colorado. His mother was born in the United States.

Mr. Ricci first two marriages ended in divorce.

In addition to Gian-Franco, the son of his second marriage, survivors include his wife, Julia, a sister, Emma Ricci, a first violinist of the Metropolitan Opera, two sons from his first marriage, Riana Muller and Roger, a His second daughter married, Paul Hopp, and several grandchildren.

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Multifaceted Businessman Ben Heineman Dies at 98

Ben W. Heineman, a leading lawyer and businessman who took over the railways, has created one of the nation's first conglomerates and became a close confidant and adviser to President Lyndon B. Johnson, died Sunday at Waukesha, Wisconsin

The cause was a stroke, his son, Ben Jr. said.

Joseph A. Califano Jr., who was deputy chief of the National Johnson said in an interview Thursday that the president had asked him repeatedly to call for advice to Mr. Heineman.

President said that the value of business acumen of Mr. Heineman, honesty and understanding the laws and social programs that the government expected Johnson to play in areas such as civil rights, health, education, control of 'pollution and consumer protection.

"More than anyone, understood what we were trying to do," said Califano. "It was a selfless. I had a personal agenda. He said, as if it were, is very difficult, and most importantly you can do to a president or one of his colleagues, like me, because people are generally fawning over you. "

While working in law or business, Mr. Heineman often had jobs in different governments in Illinois, almost all without pay, serving governor Adlai E. Stevenson and Mayor Richard J. Daley, of Chicago. Johnson was offered a number of places - Ambassador to the UN or the head of the Department of Commerce, Office of Management and Budget or the Department of Health, Education and Welfare - he refused. He, however, serve as chairman of the White House Conference on Civil Rights.

Mr. Heineman and his family lived in an integrated neighborhood in Chicago, and has found that people who left because blacks moved to be "objectionable".

In addition to his government service, Mr. Heineman, who once described himself as "a professional problem solver", has had two successful careers: 20 years of law in Chicago, and 30 years. He turned around the business in 1954, when he led a group of shareholders in a power struggle for control of Minneapolis and St. Louis Railway, which was known in some circles as the "poverty and still limping. "

In a letter to shareholders, the group of newcomers to Mr. Heineman has accused managers of the railroad to run a "gold mine" for themselves and called "the final lax, the extravagance and inefficiency."

The rebels won, and Mr. Heineman has become CEO of the railroad.

In 1956, he took up driving a much larger system, the Chicago and North Western Railway, which was known errors and mismanagement. They buy new equipment, the trains running on time and fought the unions, insisting that the work to eliminate obsolete. In 1964, the railroad $ 5.5 million became a deficit of $ 23,200,000 profit.

Mr. Heineman began to acquire other businesses - steel, clothing, chemicals - to form the Northwest Industries, one of the country's largest conglomerates. In 1972, under his leadership, the company sold the railroad to its employees, producing 200 million dollar tax benefit to the northwest of the country, that Mr. Heineman then used to acquire other companies. He retired from the company in 1985.

"He refused to take stock options," said Califano. "I thought that that a company must pay your money and invest in the company. This country today would be much better if we had a dozen business leaders from the middle, such as Ben Heineman. There was a bit of greed in him. "

Benjamin Heineman was born February 10, 1914, in Wausau, Wis. He attended public schools and earned his pilot's license at age 14. I was hoping to go to Yale, but in 1930, when Mr. Heineman was 16 years old, his father was ruined and committed suicide.

It was at the University of Michigan from 1930 until 1933 and then persuaded the Dean of the Faculty of Law at Northwestern University that lets you record a year in advance. He graduated in 1936 at 22 years, editor of the Law and the top of his class. He has worked in law firms in Chicago and began his, and Swiren Heineman.

In 1952, Mr. Heineman has worked on the presidential campaign as a writer of speeches for Mr. Stevenson, in collaboration with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., in a speech denouncing the tactics of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who led the hunt for communists in the federal government.

"He was president of the Illinois Board of Higher Education 1962-1969, and 1966, when racial conflict at its worst, Mayor Daley appointed him president of the Summit Conference in Chicago for the Civil Rights Fair Housing.

Mr. Heineman served on many boards in the arts, education and charity. In 2006, he and his wife, Natalie, donated his collection of glass sculptures, worth some $ 10 million, the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, New York

Also his son, Mr. Heineman will survive a daughter, Martha Heineman Pieper, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. His wife died in 2010, after nearly 75 years of marriage.

As head of a railroad, Mr. Heineman was to keep their customers in mind. He told Life magazine in 1964, "I do not think people want glamor - they want to train to work and working time The same applies in all areas of transport If I were in the field of aviation, I take .. Champagne and imaginative dishes, but they break their necks to provide aircraft that came and went just in time ".

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