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...heart surgery; in New Haven, Conn. While working at the Walt Disney studio, Hubley contributed to many memorable full-length cartoons, including the lyrical Rite of Spring segment of Fantasia. With his wife Faith, he formed a production company in 1955; they made films explaining the works of Astronomer Harlow Shapley and Psychoanalyst Erik Erikson as well as on abstract ideas of psychology, peace, science and democracy. The first of their three Academy Awards was won in 1960 for Moon bird, a joyful cartoon that featured their two sons' fantasy of catching a big bird with rope and shovel...
...first time that the stars were not fixed in the heavens. By the early 1900s, astronomers had learned that the sun was merely one of billions of stars in a disc-shaped galaxy, or island of stars, then believed by many to constitute the entire universe. In 1920 Harlow Shapley calculated that the galaxy, called the Milky Way, was some 300,000 light years* in diameter, a distance too stupendous for most people to comprehend, and about three times larger than today's estimates of its size. But the boundaries of the universe were not yet in sight. Using...
...Money. One possible compromise candidate is conservative Tennessee Senator William Brock, whose chief liability is that he was defeated for reelection. Some of Ford's Western supporters are suggesting Bryce Harlow, an ex-Nixon aide who is now Procter & Gamble's Washington vice president, but he has declined the post in the past. Other possibilities are John Sears, who managed Reagan's campaign but is considered more of a pragmatist than an ideologue, and Baker, who has described himself as philosophically closer to Reagan than to Ford...
Robert Hartmann, White House Counsellor and chief speechwriter, was given the assignment of collecting basic ideas from Cabinet members, senior White House staffers, campaign advisers, friendly Senators and Congressmen and old political pals like Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow. Once the suggestions were compiled, Hartmann went over them with the President, who meanwhile had been studying every presidential acceptance speech since 1948 and jotting down ideas of his own on a yellow notepad...
...hotel suite until shortly after 5 a.m. the night of his nomination. The nine: Griffin, Rockefeller, White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney, Texas Senator John Tower, Campaign Pollster Robert Teeter, Campaign Strategist Stuart Spencer, Counsellor John Marsh, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Veteran G.O.P. Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow. When the consultants adjourned, exhausted, they were still uncertain whether the President had made up his mind. Not until they reconvened four hours later did Ford's final choice emerge, and then only obliquely: in his questions, the President kept coming back to Dole...