Word: alastair
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Trudeau's hopes collapsed in Ontario, Canada's richest, most populous province, where the Tories won 57 seats to the Liberals' 32. Sighed Alastair Gillespie, Trudeau's Energy Minister, as he contemplated the defeat of 13 of Trudeau's 31 Cabinet ministers: "The tide went...
...Edwards had made 32 attempts between November 1977 and August 1978 to implant embryos conceived in a laboratory dish into a mother's womb. Four pregnancies resulted from these implants, but only two led to the birth of healthy children-Louise Brown and, on Jan. 14 in Scotland, Alastair Montgomery. Both were premature, Steptoe said, but now are "flourishing, normal babies...
Black holes occur when a neutron or another dense star collapses, and causes an area of violent activity in space exerting such strong gravitational forces that no light rays can emerge. This area then "vanishes out of sight, so to speak," Alastair G.W. Cameron, chairman of the Astronomy Department, said yesterday...
...ALASTAIR REID and WILBUR SMITH
...Died. Alastair Sim, 75, doleful-vis-aged British actor of stage and screen; of cancer; in London. During a marvelous 50 years of playing bedeviled headmasters, bungling sleuths and dotty bishops (he officiated at Peter O'Toole's wedding in The Ruling Class), Sim deftly dodged interviews. But he once let it be known that it was revealed to him "many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right...