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Daughter of a chemist, Mrs. Burbidge developed an early interest in the stars. At the University of London, her work with telescopes so impressed her professors that they appointed her acting director of the school observatory. There, she caught the eye of Geoffrey Burbidge, who was also studying at the university. They were married six months later...
...common people, however. "I am a grocer's daughter," she says. "I served behind the counter, and there was no money for treats. I never went to a dance until the university." She went to a state school, won a scholarship to Oxford, became a research chemist, then switched to the law, specializing in tax cases. She entered Parliament in 1959 and was given a government post within three years. Says one colleague: "She could well be the first woman Chancellor of the Exchequer...
...week's end, Franklin's hope had not been realized. But a group of 75 professors expressed "outrage," and Nobel-prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling denounced "a great blow to freedom of speech." Daniel Ellsberg of "Pentagon Papers" fame drew a crowd of 2,000 to Stanford's Memorial Church, where he defended Franklin's politics and admitted his own "bafflement" at the problem of ending the Viet Nam War. Later, some 200 students marched to President Lyman's office and nailed an ultimatum to his door: "Rehire Bruce by Tuesday noon." With Defense Department recruiters...
...three-part kazoo introduction, on which Garcia's guitar solos are mocking and derisive. "Dark Star", however, displays a tone of ethereal coldness and humility. For twenty minutes, Garcia, Wier, Lesh, and Constantine weave in and out of each other, building harmonic bridges over acid rivers designed by mad chemist Stan Owsley. An invitation for the future...
...Pont family, or their designees." Irenée du Pont Jr., 51, a company vice president and de facto family spokesman, told TIME Correspondent Hays Gorey that the charges are nonsense. Du Pont approves a description of the report by Dr. Julian Hill, a retired Du Pont chemist, as "intellectual vandalism." He adds: "I don't believe there is Du Pont family control of Delaware...