Word: fellows
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Teller's influence these days is indirect. A senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, he serves the Government only as a member of the Air Force scientific advisory board. But the highly hawkish views that have made him a suspect figure to many fellow scientists win him respect from the Reagan White House, where he is an honored guest. He was among the 13 scientists who dined at the mansion last week. More to the point, Reagan's science adviser, George Keyworth, 31 years younger than Teller, has long admired the old lion...
...April 1970, according to the file, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover instructed some offices to watch Lennon and fellow Beatle George Harrison, who were then visiting the U.S. He advised his agents to look "for information indicating they are using narcotics." The bureau's wariness of Lennon mounted in December 1971 when he and Political Radical Jerry Rubin drew a crowd of 15,000 to a University of Michigan rally. Not long after that, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee suggested in a report to Attorney General John Mitchell that Lennon be deported. "If Lennon's visa is terminated...
Four weeks ago, after parting with $17,000 to ransom his captured colleague, seeing two fellow mavericks arrested, and attempting fresh tragicomic excursions into Laos, Gritz (rhymes with sights) sauntered into a police station in north eastern Thailand and surrendered. He and four associates were each fined for the illegal possession of a high-powered radio, then released...
...have all raised doubts about the use of artificial hearts. Said Dr. Michael DeBakey, the noted heart-transplant surgeon from Houston: "To be a success, the heart must restore the individual to normal life. If all it does is keep the patient alive, it has not succeeded." DeBakey and fellow Houston Transplant Expert Denton Cooley therefore favor transplants, which now offer recipients a 70% to 80% chance of surviving a year and a 42% chance of living five years. The best use of the mechanical heart, says Cooley, may be "to sustain a patient until a donor heart...
...Soviet agents, and as a member of British intelligence during World War II he leaked information to the Soviets. Though he was allowed to continue advising the Queen until his retirement, he privately confessed to British authorities in 1964 that he was the "fourth man" along with three notorious fellow Cambridge traitors: Guy Burgess, who died in Moscow in 1963; Donald Maclean, who died in Moscow last month; and H.A.R. ("Kim") Philby, still living in the Soviet Union...