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...know anybody who's contributed more to the study of black holes," said John Archibald Wheeler, inventor of the term "black hold" and a professor of physics at the University of Texas at Austin...
...heads the largest of El Salvador's five major guerrilla organizations, the Popular Forces of Liberation (F.P.L.). In 1980, British Author Graham Greene was impressed by Carpio when they met in Panama. The novelist pleaded unsuccessfully with the insurgent to spare the life of Archibald Gardner Dunn, the South African Ambassador to El Salvador, whom the guerrillas had kidnaped. Said Greene of Carpio: "His eyes, they are hard...
Another critic, law professor Laurence H. Tribe, argues that Ely's approach would strip judges of power to review much legislation that could deny men real rights. And Archibald Cox, Loeb University Professor, takes issue with Ely's reading of history. To Cox, Ely's otherwise excellent work ignored the Constitution's natural rights heritage..one that should allow judges to nullify legislation that clashes with America's timeless values--no matter how pure the process that brought about the legislation...
...secure and recognized boundaries," Watergate again approached one of its climaxes. Much of Nixon's attention during the week of the airlift was absorbed with the court of appeals decision on the Watergate tapes. On Oct. 17 Attorney General Elliot Richardson transmitted a White House proposal to Archibald Cox, the Watergate special prosecutor, that Nixon would allow John Stennis, a prestigious Senator, to verify the accuracy of proposed White House summaries of the disputed tapes. By coincidence I had a lunch scheduled that day with Richardson. He told me he had the uneasy feeling that the White House was trying...
With the crowd shrieking for a miracle, first Planning, then Ferry missed open 12-ft, jumpers. Dixon, starting his first game after a long injury layoff, hit a twisting Archibald-style lay-up at 3:47 to close the gap to three, 59-56, but he too misfired the next time down the court, and Penn piled up a deceiving 17-point...