Word: foundings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Vance would disclose no details of his talks with Dobrynin, it was apparent that the Secretary of State was trying to be conciliatory. Even while the Senate continued to reverberate with demands for a Soviet withdrawal, State Department officials began suggesting that some face-saving accommodation could be found. Perhaps the Soviets could disperse their brigade, or simply pledge that it had no offensive purpose...
...Larsen eventually found a congenial home at Time Inc. He stayed for 56 years, until his retirement last spring as vice chairman. After Briton Hadden died of a blood infection in 1929, Larsen became Luce's right hand in all matters of business. He was LIFE'S first publisher, the godfather of the radio and film March of Time series and the longest tenured president of Time Inc. (1939 to 1960). With the exceptions only of Luce and Hadden, Roy Edward Larsen, who died last week at 80, was the person most responsible for the destiny of Tune...
Clues are found in rocks, a meteorite and space
...Analyzing material from two meteorites found in Antarctica, where they had been frozen in ice for 200,000 years, Ponnamperuma and his colleagues discovered many amino acids, about half of them different from any that are found in living organisms. Two facts convinced him that the acids are, in his words, "extraterrestrial and pre-biotic": 1) Unlike the Murchison meteorite, which had been contaminated by earthly organic matter after it fell, the Antarctic meteorites were pristine, containing only the amino acids they brought to the earth from space...
...Examining 3.8 billion-year-old rocks found in Greenland's Isua (Eskimo for "the farthest we can go") region, Ponnamperuma and other scientists found evidence of compounds called hydrocarbons, which are of major importance in organic chemistry. To discover whether these hydrocarbons had a biological origin, scientists analyzed the ratio of two isotopes, or forms, of carbon. They found that the amount of carbon 12, the isotope most utilized in biological processes, was high in relation to carbon 13. This indicates that the hydrocarbons were produced by photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert carbon dioxide into organic compounds...