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...Waverly owes its existence, in a sense, to two highly unlikely and unwitting patrons: Arthur Godfrey and an unmusical Greenwich Village landlord. It was Godfrey's ukulele playing that first prompted Jaffee, a furrier's son, to begin strumming the guitar as a boy in Brooklyn. Later, while studying musicology at N.Y.U., he met Kay, a pianist whose landlord had forbidden her to practice in her apartment. She took up the recorder as a consolation, and Michael experimented with accompanying her on the lute. Inspired by Noah Greenberg's pioneering New York Pro Musica, they "roped...
Last week the phones jangled for nine more winners, who, following the medicine award announced the previous week -to Allan Cormack, 55 (U.S.), and Godfrey Hounsfield, 60 (British)-completed this year's prize slate of eleven. The 1979 list of winners is notable for several reasons. For once, the often controversial Peace Prize went to an individual beyond criticism or calumny: Mother Teresa, 69, who has spent a selfless lifetime working in the slums of Calcutta. The prize for literature went to the Greek lyric poet Odysseus Elytis. The twin economics prizes went to men whose concern has been...
They had never met, never corresponded. But on opposite sides of the Atlantic, U.S. Physicist Allan Cormack, 55, of Tufts University, and Research Engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, 60, of the British firm EMI Ltd., brooded over the same mathematical puzzle and independently reached the same solution. The puzzle: how to produce an X-ray image of tissue at any depth within a patient. The result: the CAT (for computerized axial tomography) scanner, a medical marvel now used in hospitals round the world. Last week the two scientists learned that they have something else in common: they will share the 1979 Nobel...
Cormack shares his prize which was announced Thursday with British engineer Godfrey N. Housfield who designed the first working CAT scanner for EMI, a British company...
...invasion of neighboring Uganda, which overthrew the notorious regime of Dictator Idi Amin Dada. Sudan's President, Gaafar Nimeiri, led a prolonged attack against Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, accusing him of setting a dangerous precedent by "taking to the sword" to overthrow Amin. Uganda's new President, Godfrey Binaisa, won some sympathy and a few laughs with his assurances that Tanzanian troops had been warmly welcomed when they "liberated" Kampala. "Our girls made love to them," he said. "What further evidence of solidarity do you want?" But Binaisa followed Nyerere in walking out of the conference when influential...