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...Carter proposals-including instant voter registration and the creation of a consumer protection agency-that he senses his colleagues do not want. Byrd has cautioned Carter against pressing for early adoption of the Panama Canal treaty, and he even publicly bawled out Vice President Walter Mondale for a minor breach of parliamentary courtesy while Mondale was presiding over the Senate (they later traded apologies). Having spent nearly two decades in that chamber, Byrd sometimes seems more interested in the rules and folkways of the Senate than in the issues it decides. "He makes the trains run on time," goes...
Everett I. Mendelsohn, Professor of the History of Science, said yesterday that prevention of a similar breach of regulation at Harvard depends totally on the self-regulation of the scientific community...
There is an additional risk when scientists become convinced that their experiments' potential for ill effect is relatively small. They become casual and careless, discarding safety in the interest of efficiency. The September 30, 1977 issue of Science reported that this type of attitude has already led to a breach of the NIH safety rules. Out of either carelessness or intentional neglect researchers in the biochemistry and biophysics departments of the University of California at San Francisco used a noncertified biological component and failed to record its use in the official logbook...
Bernard Darwin, the foremost golf writer of the period, had made one of his rare transatlantic passages to report the maiden Walker Cup Match for The London Times. When the captain of the British squad, Robert Harris, was sidelined by illness, the irrepressible Darwin stepped into the breach and won his singles match...
...conflicts, unpleasant personality traits or questionable musical taste were associated with him, Stokowski's positive progressive instinct surfaced steadily and surely. To Stokowski the sound an orchestra produced and the reaction it drew from an audience were more important than anything else in a concert. If this necessitated a breach in propriety or break from formal performance practice, he sanctioned it. Stokowski conducted without a baton, and partly because of that was considered one of the most difficult conductors to follow. He relied in its stead upon subtle gestures and facial expressions to produce the desired results. Stokowski allowed himself...