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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter would head the ticket. Said Weicker: "If Kennedy runs in Connecticut, he threatens to take the whole shebang with him. He would win in a landslide." Complained White House Press Secretary Jody Powell of Weicker: "Courtesy is a two-way street. I always thought that anyone who was born rich would also have been brought up with some manners...
...major tests used by schools, employers and the armed forces are very accurate in predicting future success or failure for native-born English-speaking Americans...
...newspaperman, Larsen was born in Boston in 1899. He attended public schools there and went on to tax-supported Boston Latin School. The experience gave him a lifelong interest in public education and, he once said, "a sense of gratitude for what the American public school system did for me ... [It] translated into reality the American ideal of equality and opportunity...
...when -did life begin? Cyril Ponnamperuma, 55, a Ceylon-born geochemist at the University of Maryland, has been seeking answers to this question for much of his career. He has created precursors of life in laboratory simulations of the earth's primitive atmosphere and while with NASA in 1970, identified amino acids (the building blocks of protein) in the Murchison meteorite, which had fallen in Australia a year earlier. Last week, at a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Washington, Ponnamperuma presented three new pieces of evidence that the processes leading to the formation of life can take...
Morgenthau, who said he sometimes refers to himself as a "born-again Jew," said the dedication should represent the commitment of the Jewish people to the work of Hillel...