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...before Levy was widely expected to make formal his challenge on national TV, he received a pointed phone call. "I don't think a contest would be good for the movement at this time," he was reportedly told by Ze'ev Binyamin Begin, a 41-year-old geologist who also happens to be the son of Israel's former Prime Minister. Fifteen minutes later, Levy decided against running...
Arnett's convictions have made the 60-year-old former oil company geologist, who won a battlefield commission in the Marines during World War II, a hero to his fellow hunters. In Arnett, says National Rifle Association President Howard Pollock, who shares a Virginia apartment with his divorced buddy, "the hunter, the outdoorsman, the fisherman have a real champion." Adds Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska: "Ray's done a damn good job. Those extreme environmental groups were spoiled under President Carter. They never paid any attention to hunters." In fact, even some environmentalists give the flamboyant Arnett...
...equal conviction, many of Hart's supporters look beyond the primary season and hardheadedly view him as the Democrat most likely to unseat Ronald Reagan in November. At .the Democratic caucus in Cumberland, Me., for example, some 70 participants spent an hour discussing the candidates' electability. Said Geologist Frederick Bragdon: "I didn't feel the Democrats were putting forward the best candidate to defeat Ronald Reagan. After New Hampshire, I see Gary Hart as a potential candidate who can do that." For Tom Puckett, 30, of Savannah, not even his personal uncertainty about Hart's program...
Zimmermann is survived by his wife, Elvira, and two daughters, Regula D. Zimmermann, a geologist in Houston, and Barbara H. Zimmermann, a graduate student at the University of Michigan...
According to Bruce Kaliser, chief hazard geologist for the Utah department of natural resources, the soil on mountains in the area is supersaturated because of an abnormally high winter snowpack's melting under suddenly warm spring weather. Torrential rains have further loosened the soil, which has been tumbling down into the canyons, creating an earth dam. As water builds up behind the dams, it is only a matter of time before the unstable materials start to give way and a mud slide is born...