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...show how precious little privacy Americans have, Hanna Weston, an economics instructor at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, set out to learn everything she could about the personal affairs of her friend, State Senator Minnette Doderer. The Johnson County auditor's files disclosed that her house was valued at $47,110 and that her property taxes were $1,252.94 a year. An official at an Iowa City bank had no qualms about telling Weston that a $500 check on Doderer's account would clear, meaning that she had a balance of at least that much...
...however, were less interested in the stars onstage than in the chance to trade licks with fellow amateurs. Impromptu bluegrass bands sawed and plucked through the days and well into the nights. "Bluegrass is much more an amateur phenomenon than a professional one," noted Tom Adler, 30, an associate instructor at Indiana University's Folklore Institute and a banjo picker who has been coming to Bean Blossom since Monroe's first festival in 1967. "The rudiments are easy to learn-although there's no end to what can be done in terms of technical achievement...
...determined by the University, Southern says that the sixmember faculty quota of Afro makes the hiring of an expert African historian "a luxury for me." Southern adds that the present Afro faculty includes two Africans--J. Mutero Chirenje, assistant professor of Afro-American Studies, and Chidi U.E. Ikonne, instructor in Afro-American Studies--and that Chirenje specializes in African literature...
Coming to Harvard during the depression years of the '30s, Wald started as an instructor and tutor in Biochemistry, receiving tenure in 1948. He was named to the Higgins chair in 1968. Wald had isolated Vitamin A in the human retina before he came to Harvard and eventually won the Nobel Prize in Physiology for his vision research. Today, Wald says it is his dedication to and understanding of science, rather than belief in any specific political philosophy, that has compelled him to become a social activist. He admired Salvadore Allende's Marxist government but says, "I don't know...
Like in W.W. II guys used the Ml, a. Browning automatic rifle, grenades, some machine guns and a bazooka to knock out tanks, if they were close enough. Like 20 ft., our drill instructor said. That's sort of a joke. Well, the M-16 is a lot easier to handle than the Ml, and it can be used after dark. It's got a night scope that can pick up targets a mile away using infra-red light. And you should see what we have instead of the old bazooka. First there...