Word: bells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fatal beating of Prison Guard William Quinn during the 1971 uprising at Attica (TIME, April 14) than the news broke that a former chief aide to Attica Special Prosecutor Anthony G. Simonetti had charged that there had been a cover-up in the investigation of the revolt. Malcolm H. Bell accused his old boss of deliberately impeding the inquiry into possible criminal acts by law enforcement officers...
Although 62 of the Attica inmates have been indicted by a grand jury, not one guard or policeman has yet been charged. Bell, who quit in disgust last December, made his complaint in a letter of resignation to State Attorney General Louis J. Lefkowitz. That was followed in January by a 160-page report to incoming Governor Hugh Carey. Last week the letter and the report leaked...
...decay. A few weeds here and there. Easy going and a pace that's so slow there almost isn't any pace at all. The posed time table suggests a train in about ten minutes. Would-be passengers gather. A worker easily, effortlessly, lackadaisically sweeps out the station. A bell rings somewhere. At the grade crossing alongside the station the attendant comes out of his little house and brings down the gates, chatting for a moment with a passerby holding up traffic in expectation of the train. The high-strung coursers of the Orange Line see a distant ideal...
...resolved if more information was revealed about the discovery. For example, asks Cornell Astronomer Thomas Gold: "Did Hewish first recognize that the signals were of a sidereal nature - coming from a source that rises and sets each day with the stars rather than the sun - or was it Miss Bell?" If so, says Gold, "she deserves a major share of the honor." For, he adds, "that realization would have been the first firm indication that the signals were coming from beyond the solar system and represented the true moment of discovery...
...married, the mother of a two-year-old son and a part-time X-ray astronomer at the University of London, Jocelyn Bell Burnell acknowledges that she "made him [Hewish] aware of their sidereal nature and convinced him that it was worth looking into more closely." But she adds: "Nobel Prizes are based on longstanding research, not on a flash-in-the-pan observation of a research student. The award to me would have debased the prize...