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...Thomas bristles at any suggestion that there was political interference in the deliberations, but he refuses to discuss the substance of periodic conference calls with Katie McGinty, the White House's environmental- policy director. "Politics is not our bag," he says. Still, two weeks ago, Thomas and forester Jerry Franklin were flown to Washington to brief anxious members of Congress from the Northwest. The meeting was described as "tense...
Superbly acted by a cast of nonstars and tautly directed by Carl Franklin (One False Move), Laurel Avenue is honest but not exploitative, affirmative without sappy TV "uplift." The basketball star, after a stormy date with the Arnetts' teenage daughter, suddenly draws a gun and points it at his own head. "I blew it," he cries, then wearily puts the pistol down. (No easy violence here.) The troubled single mother, after being abused by her ex- boyfriend, is so depressed that she can't face a job interview. "You can do anything you want to do," her father urges...
...listening to him brood over the delayed invasion of Sicily. Most of all he introduced her to anyone he received, and more and more Americans turned up. "It seemed natural for me to be entertaining General Marshall or General Eisenhower," she says. Among the visitors was Averell Harriman, then Franklin Roosevelt's special envoy, who was dining with the Churchills at Chequers one night when a valet turned on a radio to provide reports of Japan's sneak attack of Pearl Harbor. Pamela later said Harriman was "the most handsome man I had ever met." He was, however, married...
...Franklin will be joined by fellow Fermilab researcher John E. Huth. Both particle physicists are involved in the search for the elusive "top quark." And Eric J. Heller, who examines the relationships between semi-classical and quantum mechanics, will come to the Physics and Astronomy departments in 1994 from the University of Washington...
...Chemistry Department will gain Eric N. Jacobsen, an expert on mechanic and organic chemistry. McKay Associate Professor of Materials Science Michael J. Aziz, who performs research on phase transformation kinetics, joins Franklin as another internal promotion in the physical sciences...