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...Louisiana; of corruption charges that arose from his involvement in the liquidation of an insurance firm; in Baton Rouge. Edwards, known for his way with women and dice, has been the focus of at least two dozen state and federal investigations since his days in Congress in the 1960s. He still faces as much as $4.5 million in fines and 250 years in prison from a May conviction for taking payoffs to issue riverboat casino licenses. He has appealed...
...idea for TFTP took root. "I was affected by the poverty, the lack of technology and the contrast between rich and poor," he says. He went on to earn a master's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., and a Ph.D. at Birbeck College in London. In the 1960s he worked in Washington as a U.S. Foreign Service officer for Asian countries. He went to Switzerland in 1970 to coordinate the International Secretariat for Volunteer Service, an intergovernmental agency based in Geneva; married a Swiss, Ruth Griwa, and stayed...
That discovery alone merited a Nobel Prize, but Carlsson soon made another. For years, doctors prescribed drugs for schizophrenia with a kind of blind chemical faith; the medications reduced symptoms, but no one knew just how. In the 1960s, Carlsson discovered that they work by preventing nerve cells from taking up dopamine. That penetrating insight led directly to better antischizophrenia drugs...
Many attribute this decline to a resentment for the GSD that formed after the "Sert Era." Josep Lluis Sert, former dean of the department of architecture at the GSD, secured a number of commissions for himself in the 1960s and 1970s...
...presidents. Ronald Reagan's intellect was always held under high suspicion, yet Reagan knew enough to remove the confiscatory tax rates and inflation that were squelching investment and entrepreneurship under Nixon, Carter and Gerald R. Ford. The big posthumous tax cuts proposed by John F. Kennedy '40 made the 1960s the first decade without recession. Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, both "do nothing" presidents not renowned for mental prowess, were the stewards of the great 1920s boom when GNP increased by more than half in under a decade. Coolidge simply repealed the war time tax rates...