Word: historians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...funding the studies, the MBTA is fulfilling a legal responsibility to make all attempts to preserve sites, including the Yard, listed in the National Register of Historical Places, Kim Davis, historian for the Massachusetts Historian Commission, said yesterday...
...mysterious Red Planet, rather than an eyewitness view; NASA's dream of sending man to Mars has been dashed by earthly budget cuts. At the 145th national meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science last week in Houston, Edward C. Ezell, a space historian, argued that the manned-flight blueprints at least be kept for future generations. Some day, he said sadly, "the dreamer quality of science" will be restored...
Christman, research historian at Washington's National Portrait Gallery, has introduced an eclectic choice of portraits, accompanied by masterly biographies in miniature. Here is the fervent "Stonewall" Jackson and the loquacious Henry James; here, too, is Charles Pinckney, the Revolutionary War officer remembered for his "incredibly bad military advice." The works themselves are undistinguished, apart from the self-portraits by Mary Cassatt and Edward Hopper; but these busts, etchings, daguerreotypes, oils and sketches constitute a museum of the human physiognomy-and of our civilization over the past two centuries...
Paul H. Buck, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and dean of the Faculty from 1942 to 1953, died suddenly at his home in Cambridge on December 23. Buck, who had been in failing health, was 79 years...
...Bates, or "Biff" to his friends, presides over the growing collection with almost paternal affection. Bates, a 1928 graduate of the Law School, took over the library six years ago after he retired from private legal practice. A member of the club since the '30s, he is an unofficial historian, having watched the club change over his more than 40 years of affiliation...