Word: drew
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence of outside conspiratorial help." Ray has already talked to committee investigators for 25½hours. Stokes had said he wanted to put him on the stand to question him about Raoul, the mystery man in the prisoner's story (and perhaps imagination) who, Ray has claimed, drew him into the King assassination plot. But such a scene, with Ray on camera and all the conspiracy buffs waiting for remarks to support their theories, is "way down the line," said Stokes...
...rocket. His genius led the German army to employ him in 1932 to develop liquid-fueled rockets; by 1937 it had moved him to the Baltic Sea port of Peenemünde, where began the work that led to Hitler's dreaded V-2 rocket. As the war drew to a close, Von Braun was considering a missile that could reach New York City...
Died. Joe Musial, 72, cartoonist who pioneered the use of comic books as teaching aids and drew the Katzenjammer Kids for the past 25 years; after a long illness; in Manhasset, N.Y. Musial took over Rudolph Dirks' comic strip featuring the terrible Teutonic twins in 1952 and, as art director of King Features' comic-book division, was also a ghost artist for many other series...
...supposed to serve the poor. Newfield recalls a typical 1974 dinner of the Brooklyn Democratic group whose hero was Mayor Abraham Beame. Seven of the guests have since been convicted of felonies (including two Congressmen) and several more are now under judicial and ethical clouds. From such organizations Beame drew much of his management talent...
...each case, student-faculty committees drew up proposals to be passed by their legislative faculty bodies. Progress was slow--the fight averaged about three years--because there was invariably some opposition. At Penn, Pollock says, hostility was less of a problem than indifference. "The administration probably didn't think it was an important area." Mary Parlee '65, associate professor of Psychology at Barnard who participated in this spring's s successful effort to get a major established there, says, "The faculty wanted to know what its substance was. They were simply unfamiliar with the work going on in feminist studies...