A billionaire himself, he was the witty vice chairman of Mr. Buffett’s powerhouse investment firm Berkshire Hathaway. But he had far more influence than his title suggested.
He later orbited the moon, but in 1970 he was bumped from the Apollo flight after being exposed to measles. Then, from mission control, he helped it avert disaster.
She survived gruesome medical experimentation at the Ravensbrück concentration camp to become a psychiatrist counseled by the priest who would become John Paul II.