Word: bells
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...raised in Texas, Castillo served in the Peace Corps, then returned to Texas to lead a desegregation fight in Houston. He was elected Houston controller in 1971 and was twice reelected. Although he has yet to be confirmed by the Senate, Castillo has already worked with Attorney General Griffin Bell on the new program...
Heeding traditional scientific protocol, Fairbank last week was not talking publicly in advance of the scheduled publication of his results in Physical Review Letters. But the basic operation of his quark-hunting experiment is known. As their tool, Fairbank and two young colleagues-Arthur Hebard, now at Bell Laboratories, and George LaRue-devised an updated version of the classical "oil drop" experiment, first used by Robert Millikan in 1910 to measure the charge on a single electron. Instead of oil drops, the Fairbank team relied on tiny spheres of niobium, a metal that becomes a superconductor when it is chilled...
Here and there, however, there are signs that the full burden of national power is beginning to have impact. Attorney General Griffin Bell is plainly appalled these days at the monastic life he must lead to do all the work before him. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance is obviously a more cautious and thoughtful man after his encounter with the Soviets in Moscow. The White House men like Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell still stand aloof from Washington, suspicious of its protocols, staggered by its costs, confusion and hypocrisy. Now and then Carter himself seems on the verge of discouragement...
...Peter Bell-Back Room at the Idler...
...slot and ask for Harry if you think you've got the stuff. On the other hand, if you think you've got something, but it's not contagious, look for Peter C. Johnson, formerly of Peter C. Johnson and the Manic-Depressives, tonight and Friday, and Peter Bell next Tuesday. Johnson has an outstanding repertoire of folk-rock Cambridge bar songs; Bell, who up until a few months ago played with the James Montgomery Band, does folk-bluesy stuff...