Word: du
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proportions of the famous dwarves' quarters in the Gonzaga Palace in Mantua, a complete antifunctionalist joke. But for a long while Johnson was too embedded in the world of high taste and big money to permit himself large public ironies: that is one of the freedoms l'architecte du roi has to abjure...
...issues growing so pregnant demanded a press conference, so the President held one. The Business Council, meeting up the street at the Mayflower Hotel and stuffed with such luminaries as Du Font's Irving Shapiro and Chase Manhattan's David Rockefeller, required equal wattage from the White House. After a long, tough day, Carter took the podium at nearly 9 p.m. with a smile and a confession: "Your own influence at times might be even underestimated by you." He talked and answered questions for nearly an hour, a worthwhile effort, as he calculated it, for his anti-inflation...
DIED. Vincent du Vigneaud, 77, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his synthesis of two pituitary hormones; of a stroke; in White Plains, N. Y. Chairman of the biochemistry department at Cornell University Medical College, Du Vigneaud headed a team of scientists who succeeded in 1946 in synthesizing penicillin, the climax of years of work by an international task force...
...this year's Burgundies will not be available until early 1980 for whites and early 1981 for reds. They will be scarce, but wines from Beaujolais and the Côtes du Rhône, Burgundy's neighbors to the south, have enjoyed abundant harvests. As a result, the 1978 nouveaux are not only better than last year's but often cheaper." And there is good news from Bordeaux, which also had an excellent year. Growers there expect a price rise of only 4% for reds and 10% for whites, which will make Bordeaux a good value...
...heady atmosphere of fundamental deep-think is unpolluted by the likes of intercollegiate football games and homecoming queens. Until 1970, there were no women undergraduates at all; now there are 88, or some 10% of the student body. Observes retired President Lee A. Du-Bridge: "Our football game is a full-time day of seminars for students and alumni. And they flood the campus for them. It is equal to homecomings in each of the disciplines." Adds President Goldberger: "Our unique position is our mystique. Our small size enables us to form a community of scientists, a scholarly intimacy that...