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Who: Warren Christopher, chairman. Position: Chairman, law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. Background: Deputy secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter, deputy attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson, vice chairman of the McCone Commission, which investigated the Watts riots. Active in Democratic politics. Who: John A. Arguelles, vice chairman. Position: With Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Newport Beach office. Background: Retired California Supreme Court justice.

Roy A. Anderson, a former Lockheed Corp. chairman who led the company's recovery from near-fatal political and financial scandals of the 1970s and then became one of Southern California's more active civic leaders, died Saturday. He was 82. Anderson died after a long illness at his home in La Canada, said his wife of 55 years, Betty Anderson. "He died peacefully with family members at his side," she said.

It may be a bum rap, but, in the business world, people under 30 are often seen as too inexperienced, unsophisticated and flighty to hold top-level positions, while those over 60 are considered too burned out, slow and set in their ways to provide energetic, innovative leadership. If David Lapin and Roy Anderson, the co-owners of Hanover Mortgage Corp. in Irvine, had bought these stereotypes, they wouldn't be in business together.

It may be a bum rap, but, in the business world, people under 30 are often seen as too inexperienced, unsophisticated and flighty to hold top-level positions, while those over 60 are considered too burned out, slow and set in their ways to provide energetic, innovative leadership. If David Lapin and Roy Anderson, the co-owners of Hanover Mortgage Corp. in Irvine, had bought these stereotypes, they wouldn't be in business together.

Roy A. Anderson, a former Lockheed Corp. chairman who led the company's recovery from near-fatal political and financial scandals of the 1970s and then became one of Southern California's more active civic leaders, died Saturday. He was 82. Anderson died after a long illness at his home in La Canada, said his wife of 55 years, Betty Anderson. "He died peacefully with family members at his side," she said.

The extraordinary Bel-Air Kirkeby Mansion, the beloved home of the late Carlotta and Arnold Kirkeby, is getting every bit of the attention it deserves. Next Thursday the CHIPS (Colleague Helpers in Philanthropic Service) lead off with a major fund-raiser "Inside the Gates," giving benefactors a chance to thrill at the vistas and the mansion, restored to all its grandeur by Los Angeles' top designers. Offspring Carla Kirkeby and her brother Arnold C. Kirkeby are the generous instigators.

Paul A. Miller, chairman and chief executive of Pacific Lighting Corp., has been elected chairman of the Los Angeles World Affairs Council. Miller succeeds Roy A. Anderson, chairman of the executive committee of Lockheed Corp.

Lockheed Chairman Roy A. Anderson said at the firm's annual meeting that Lockheed is studying a possible bid for the Textron subsidiary. Anderson said that Lockheed could easily fund the purchase with cash and bank credit and that bids are due within one month.

The Los Angeles-area United Way announced today that William F. Kieschnick, recently retired president and chief executive officer of Arco, was elected chairman of the charity agency, which serves Los Angeles County, and parts of San Bernardino and Kern counties and provides funding for 349 local and "human care agencies and programs." Kieschnick succeeds outgoing board Chairman Roy A. Anderson, who became the charity's acting president last week after Francis X. McNamara Jr.

Who: Warren Christopher, chairman. Position: Chairman, law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. Background: Deputy secretary of state under President Jimmy Carter, deputy attorney general under President Lyndon B. Johnson, vice chairman of the McCone Commission, which investigated the Watts riots. Active in Democratic politics. Who: John A. Arguelles, vice chairman. Position: With Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Newport Beach office. Background: Retired California Supreme Court justice.

These appointments were made recently by the governor. * Roy A. Anderson of La Canada has been appointed to the Electrical Oversight Board, created last year to help oversee the deregulation of the state's electric industry. Anderson, 77, was the chairman and chief executive of Lockheed Corp. from 1956 to 1985. No salary. No Senate confirmation required. * Clair W.