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...miles in his 13-year-old Ford station wagon; in the last four days alone he would have covered 4,100 miles, which averages out to more than 40 m.p.h., 24 hours a day. The reporters say a task force headed by Texas Rangers was so eager to close unsolved cases that it failed to double-check Lucas' stories...
...State Department was eager to settle the matter before it ballooned into a major East-West dispute. Hoping to keep the issue as low-key as possible, the State Department waited four days to make public the Soviets' promise. The department now believes that Moscow cannot be pushed any further on the shooting...
Ward soberly records these efforts to turn Roosevelt into a model boy, waiting for the explosion that never comes. F.D.R. turns into a complaisant youth, somewhat spoiled but eager to please. Schooling at Groton does not greatly change him, and neither does Harvard. When he is Assistant Secretary of the Navy, he claims that his failure to get into Harvard's Porcellian Club 15 years earlier was "the greatest disappointment of my life...
Doctors are eager to go ahead with multidrug experiments and more extensive tests of existing drugs. "It's terrible going into room upon room of patients who ask what we can do, and to have to tell them we have nothing to offer," says Dr. Donald Abrams, assistant director of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. One major obstacle, researchers agree, is a lack of federal funds. "The Administration is giving lip service to this disease but not the funding," complains Immunologist Allan Goldstein of George Washington University. Federal allocations for AIDS research have risen steadily from...
...recent State Department amendment to United States travel protocol downgrading its warning against travel in Israel ignited the hopes of Harvard students eager to study abroad in the Middle Eastern nation—despite the administration’s continued refusal to sanction studies in nations on the Department’s travel warning list...