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Johnson's thesis was presented to the Lunar and Planetary Conference in Houston earlier this spring...
Nine-year Corporation veteran Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, chairman and chief executive officer of Houston based Kirby Exploration Co., an oil and gas producer, is a director of Corning Glass Works in Corning. N.Y., a broad-based electronics manufacturer with 30,500 employees and revenues last year of $1.59 billion. According to the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, Corning maintains investments in South Africa. Further information on the company's investments there was not available last week...
...grade school years was followed by a roaring boom which lasted until our junior year in high school. About that time, the first feeble attempts at air conditioning--with blocks of ice and fans circulating air--came along. As a Northerner, I often wondered how people in Houston and New Orleans and Mobile survived the summer; even New York could be frightful and Washington was worse. In the fall of 1929 everything collapsed and the United States and the world plunged into economic disaster...
There have been indications that Pakistan is at work on the task of actually assembling an explosive device. In April 1984, after six months of surveillance, U.S. Customs agents in Houston detained Nazir Ahmed Vaid, a Pakistani businessman. In a case similar to this month's Los Angeles indictment involving Israel, Vaid was charged with attempting to ship to Pakistan 50 Krytrons labeled "bulb/ switches." In September he was given a suspended sentence of two years and five years' probation. He was then deported to Pakistan. Only later did prosecutors learn that documents that had been in their possession...
...three weeks his latest opera, Akhnaten, gets its British premiere at the English National Opera in London. Akhnaten received its first performance last year in Stuttgart, and has since played to packed houses in Houston and New York City. An earlier full-length opera, Satyagraha, which has had several productions in the U.S. and Europe, has been recorded by CBS Masterworks for release in July; Beverly Sills, a confirmed fan, has scheduled it for the New York City Opera next year. And last December the Brooklyn Academy of Music revived Einstein on the Beach, a 4 1/2-hour opera by Glass...