Word: harlows
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These flurries of reconciliation have occurred before, and then they have come to nothing under onslaughts of arrogance and indifference by the White House wrecking crew. The difference now is that good and reasonable men like Laird and Harlow and Haig are nurturing this rehabilitation. So there is reason to hope...
Recently, however, Fischer has begun to detect signs of improvement. "Before Watergate, people in the White House frequently refused to make appointments and often neglected to return phone calls." Today, Fischer happily finds that such Nixon advisers as Alexander Haig, Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow "are aware of the dangers of White House isolation in a way that Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman never understood...
...Laird, Bryce Harlow, the new White House political operative, and Al Haig, the chief of staff, are fighting this crushing weight of discouragement. So is Nixon in a way, but he remains a distracted-and now ill-man. ("How do we get him out of that cocoon?" worried one White House official last week...
...Died. Harlow Shapley, 86, Harvard astronomer who proved that the earth and its solar system lay at the fringes rather than the center of the Milky Way; after a long illness; in Boulder, Colo. Shapley's study of globular star clusters and the changing luminosity of variable stars led to new means of measuring the vast distances across space and helped to disprove the belief that the earth's sun stood at the center of the universe. During the '40s and '50s he focused his gaze on earthly affairs, vehemently opposing McCarthyism, assaults on academic freedom...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, Emeritus, died last night in Boulder, Colo...at the age of 86. One of the world's foremost astronomers. Shapley helped develop the "big bang" theory, the current dominant theory of the structure of the universe...