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...those who have little or no scientific training. But he also does well with specialists. Astronomer-Author Carl Sagan considers Asimov "the greatest explainer of the age." Says a Harvard research physicist: "Frankly, I read the man so that I can explain my own work to friends." Martin Gardner, an editor of Scientific American, calls Asimov "one of the top science writers in the business simply because, like all good novelists, he knows how to dramatize...
Steve Rosston '81 was elected vice-president and Michael Mills '82 was elected secretary. Members at large are Nina Gardner '82, John Driscoll '82, Guy Erwin '80, Alexander Bok '81, and Brian Dunmore...
...subject is hard to please. The first official portrait of Henry Kissinger, painted by Boston Artist Gardner Cox and commissioned to hang in the State Department, was vetoed: Kissinger did not like it. He was pleased, however, by a second attempt, by Houston Artist J. Anthony Wills. "It's an excellent likeness, swelled head and all," pronounced Kissinger last week. He didn't even mind that Wills had "painted out the scepter." In fact, quipped the former Secretary of State, the unveiling was "one of my most fulfilling moments. Until they do Mount Rushmore." Artist Wills, too, felt...
DIED. Stephen S. Gardner, 56, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and former Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1974-76); of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As the patrician chairman of Philadelphia's third largest bank, the Girard, Gardner substantially increased the number of the bank's black employees and contributed to the city's cultural life by supporting such institutions as the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1976 President Ford selected the moderate Republican for a 14-year term on the Fed's seven-member board of governors...
GRAHAM A. GARDNER...