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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Sprague, the veteran Philadelphia prosecutor, resigned as counsel to the House Select Committee in a flurry of internecine committee bickering, Sprague interviewed Ray in prison three times. Sprague said they were beginning to develop a rapport. After these interviews, Sprague concluded that Raoul "does not and did not exist." Ray did insist, however, that he had had some help from unnamed others while he was a fugitive in Canada, Portugal and England after King's death. The notion, however, that Ray was about to reveal sensational conspiracy details to House investigators at the time of his escape last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: THE QUESTION OF CONSPIRACY | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...much is history. First Novelist Thomas Gavin, 36, reopens this long-closed case with a single question: What if Schlumberger did not die when the newspapers claimed but lived on in obscurity, composing a private journal of his bizarre life? If such a document existed, it might tell something worth hearing about a chess genius who mysteriously elected to spend twelve years playing inferior opponents while anonymously stuffed in an airless, sweltering box. Gavin asserts that such a document did exist and that Kingkill is based on it. With this single shading of fact into fiction, the performance begins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man in the Automaton | 6/20/1977 | See Source »

...that they exist, the three programs are also similar. Each is interdisciplinary, and is a program rather than a department. All three hold special administrative status, all encourage the integration of women's studies material in courses that do not deal directly with women, and several hire visiting professors in the field. Funding differs somewhat from school to school, with the Barnard and UMass programs sponsored by the University's special programs fund, and Penn's funded mainly by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: Moving toward the starting line | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

Noting that "color doesn't really exist without the observer," Land added that the relationship between the human mind and the outside environment must reflect the close links in the perception process...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Land Speaks On Science, Metaphysics | 6/15/1977 | See Source »

...release energy in the form of a high-velocity neutron. Both isotopes are easily obtained. Each gallon of sea water contains one-eighth gram (.004 oz.) of deuterium, which can be converted into the energy equivalent of more than 1,100 liters (300 gal.) of gasoline. Tritium does not exist freely in nature but can be produced by bombarding lithium (which can be extracted in large quantities from rocks or sea water) with neutrons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TECHNOLOGY: The Great Nuclear Fusion Race | 6/6/1977 | See Source »

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