Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report on its affirmative action plan, Harvard says that it will have no spaces for female or minority faculty members until 1984. Reached for comment in Washington, D.C., Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice-designate Griffin Bell says, "You can't say they didn...
...final lineup was the result of tough infighting among competing interests, and fancy-even tricky-maneuvering on Carter's part. The most egregious example was his appointment as Attorney General: Griffin Bell, a former federal appeals-court judge. Black leaders were outraged at the choice (see box opposite page...
...Bell is something of a crony of Carter's, and in that sense the appointment is not unprecedented; Carter recalled John F. Kennedy's appointment of his brother Robert, and joked that his own brother Billy was in line for the job as soon as he got his law degree. But Carter had seemed to promise more than a comfortable ally in such a crucial post...
When the court came to grips with a host of civil rights cases. Bell emerged as a moderate. He wrote the opinion outlawing Georgia's county unit system, which vastly overrepresented rural areas. Last March, he resigned from the court and joined a law firm where Charles Kirbo, Carter's senior adviser, is a partner...
...Princeton Physicist Robert Dicke determined that if the universe indeed began as a fireball filled with intense radiation, a trace of that radiation should still exist and be detectable with a sensitive radio antenna. By a serendipitous coincidence, in the same year Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson of Bell Laboratories were using just such an antenna to listen to radio waves from the Milky Way. They had been puzzled by a faint background noise that seemed to be coming evenly from all parts of the sky. When they heard about Dicke's work, however, and compared the frequency...