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...project that took five years, it is surprising to learn that the author received his doctorate from Yale not in science but in English literature. His Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology is perhaps more telling; although it is also in literature, McGee, 33, chose Caltech because he wanted to dabble in science, a minor but persistent interest throughout his life. After teaching at Yale, he took time off to write this book. He is now busy with another work on the history of biology, and prepares promotional material for the science departments at Stanford...
...apportion no blame, visit no death camp. But one cannot pretend that the world began on V-E day 1945. One has to ask the question: Where did the new Germany come from? Some concession had to be made to history. The President decided to make it. And he chose precisely the wrong history...
...polyp in the President's colon, and his doctors thought it prudent to remove it and make a thorough examination of the entire intestine at the same time. But they were in no rush and told the President he could schedule the procedure just about any time he chose. He eventually selected July 12, a day when there was nothing much on his calendar...
...under another system of rank, and since 1973 Crowe's has been admiral. Last week President Reagan added still another title to the admiral's collection, nominating him as the next Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, effective Oct. 1. Crowe succeeds General John Vessey Jr., 63, who chose to retire nine months before the completion of his second two-year term...
Once they chose their course of action, Keough and Goizueta moved swiftly. On Tuesday and Wednesday, Keough went to an Atlanta television studio to tape a commercial that showed him announcing the return of old Coke. Beamed by satellite to a New Jersey production center, the spot was retaped and flown by helicopter to Manhattan for delivery to the major networks for broadcast Wednesday on the evening news...