Word: edward
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...fact that the children are so sweet, happy and loving. But we listen with a sense of forboding. For in the music there is a undercurrent of fear. And there is a sinister taint to the subtly gothic set designed by the well known author and illustrator Edward Gorey...
...last weekend, Rand McNally was overwhelmed with outraged calls. One caller, Pat Lile, a Pine Bluff, Ark., development promoter, complained of Pine Bluff's 328th-place rating: "They don't contact one person or make one phone call. Other people use their data, and the damage proliferates." Said Mayor Edward Bartholomew of Glens Falls, N.Y., which ranked 290th: "We're going to have a public burning of (Rand McNally's) almanac and all their maps." Responded Rand McNally Public Relations Director Conroy Erickson: "All we've done is supply the raw material. Readers need to make their own judgments...
Nonetheless, Hardy believes he is exploring a realm that may help define the human race. Even though he has passed the reins of the Oxford research unit to British Botanist Edward Robinson, Hardy plans to continue his own work with the aid of his new prize money. One day, he hopes, studies like his will be extended to Asian cultures, helping to resolve the skirmishing among Hindus, Muslims and Sikhs. "They must realize," he says, "that their different religions are all part of the same...
...diameter for the geosynchronous variety, and of almost unimaginable perfection; the slightest pitting or warping could cause a laser beam to scatter. Chemical lasers would need aiming mirrors (diameter: 30 ft.) atop their satellites too, and those mirrors would also have to be just about perfect. Star Wars Supporter Edward Teller considers fleets of laser satellites and orbiting mirrors too expensive to make chemical or excimer lasers practicable for missile defense...
...President was instinctively sympathetic to the arguments of Edward Teller and other outside advocates of new defensive systems. But both the Defense and State Departments were wedded to traditional deterrence. Giving new emphasis to a defensive policy would be wrenching, and Reagan's then National Security Adviser, William Clark, was loath to upset his "client" bureaucracies. Thus when Teller obtained an audience with Reagan on Sept. 14, ) 1982, Clark attended as devil's advocate. He posed skeptical questions that tended to undercut the scientist's presentation...