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Getting into the future once proved just as difficult. The science-fiction field, formerly a gentlemen's club run by the likes of Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert and Arthur C. Clarke, now has a woman at the top of the charts. The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Le Guin, 53, won both Hugo and Nebula prizes, sci-fi's Pulitzers. Le Guin also won the National Book Award for her children's novel The Farthest Shore in 1972. Her 22 books, most of which are science fiction, have en livened the hardware-oriented genre with emotional...
Although the day was chiefly the celebration of a brilliant career, there were highly emotional moments. Herbert Schville, a long-time friend who delivered the final remarks, choked back tears as he concluded, "May this inspiration leader now rest in peace...
WEST GERMANY. After a decline in growth this year, expected to be around 2.5%, the West Germans can look forward to a modest 2% growth in G.N.P. in 1983, beginning in midyear, according to Herbert Giersch, director of the University of Kiel's Institute for World Economics. Inflation, now running at 4.5%, will fall to 3% by next December if wage increases are limited, as the government seeks, to 3.5% during 1983. That will be tough, said Giersch, since militant trade unions are already demanding salary hikes of about 7.5%. The government's recent efforts to stimulate...
Grendel's Den co-owner, Herbert Kuelzer, said yesterday be expects to receive a license before the end of the month...
...Herbert Kuelzer and co-owner Susan Kuelzer popped a champagne cork in Tribe's Harvard Law School office yesterday after receiving news of the decision...