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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There may be under-the-table perquisites as well for favored officers. In 1976 Rear Admiral Ramzi Abbas Ata'i was found guilty of embezzling $25 million and fined $3.7 million. Some Iranians argue that his case was an exception and that top officers by and large are honest. Critics insist that graft is common and condoned, and that the Shah was forced to prosecute Ata'i only because his activities, which included transporting duty-free luxury goods from the Emirate of Dubai aboard navy ships, had become a general scandal...
...telescope, which is larger and has higher resolving power than any other ever built. From its perch high above the earth's obscuring blanket of air, it will provide new and sharper images of the myriad and puzzling sources of X rays found across the skies-and new insights into such bizarre phenomena as quasars, pulsars and black holes. As Harvard Astrophysicist Jonathan Grindlay put it: "We are at the dawn of a new era in our understanding of the universe." In honor of the man whose relativity theory has already contributed so much toward that understanding, the satellite...
...interests, Mead remained a working anthropologist to the end. One of the world's spryest septuagenarians, she had long kept a schedule that would have left most younger people exhausted. But in recent years Mead, who had survived malaria, three marriages, several miscarriages and years of native foods, found her health failing. "I know I can't live forever," she often said. "I'm just not ready...
...much aggressiveness is exhausting. Today there seems a lot of evidence that Americans are tired of it. Stragglers are descending from the culture of the Ik (that east African hill tribe that, as Anthropologist Colin Turnbull found, amused itself by snatching food from the mouths of children and kicking the elderly into campfires). Remarks Judith Martin, who writes a satiric "Miss Manners" column for the Washington Post: "We're coming out of a psychologically self-oriented era. I think there's a craving for tradition, form, orderliness?and there's also a desire to be protected from everybody else...
Texas mothers, however, are not broadminded. One of them not long ago found that she could not send out any announcements when her daughter was finally married because she had been telling her friends for a year that her daughter was married to the man she was living with. A woman from Dallas took her PossLQ home for the weekend recently to meet her parents. Her mother usually came to the door to meet her, but not this time. Her father squared himself in the front hall like an immense stack of Gideon Bibles and announced: "That's your room...