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...third characterization of the scientific process. that if one waits. one may witness "an instant of the 'inductive leap'," is arguable. This eureka vision of science rarely holds trus in a profession where one plans series of experiments in advance and where individual projects take many months...
Inventor Knut Bjorn-Larsen might not have hollered "Eureka!" when he developed a garterless girdle back in 1965. But Bjorn-Larsen, 58, of Carpinteria, Calif., would be readily excused if he hollered himself hoarse last week. The reason: in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, a federal judge ordered Munsingwear Inc. of Minneapolis to pay Bjorn-Larsen $31 million in damages for fraud and patent infringement...
...WTTW. But small stations that are much more dependent on money from Washington will be severely hurt by the Reagan slices. "A 25% cut won't put us out of business, but it will seriously cripple us," says St. Clair Adams, general manager of little KEET in Eureka, Calif...
...pinch, Reagan fell back on describing a game he had played in for Eureka. "So when the light went on I said, 'Here we are going into the fourth quarter on a cold November afternoon, the long blue shadows settling over the field, the wind whipping in through the end of the stadium'?hell, we didn't have a stadium at Eureka, we had grandstands?and I took it up to the point in which there were 20 seconds to go and we scored the winning touchdown. As a blocking guard, I was supposed to get the first...
...debt so readily as Ronald Reagan. TIME invited the President-elect to pinpoint the year that was most important in forming his views, and after some mulling, he settled on 1932. That was the year he turned 21 and went home to Dixon, III., a graduate of tiny Eureka College near Peoria. Then, after a summer of lifeguarding at Lowell Park near Dixon, he found, at radio station WOC in Davenport, Iowa, 60 miles away, a chance to get into sports announcing. What was the year like for the nation and the young man who would one day lead...