Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Byrd, Weems developed many navigational methods and devices, among them the Weems plotter, treasured by pilots from World War II on. An adviser to Byrd and Charles Lindbergh, Weems was often called back to duty after retiring as a Navy captain in 1933, the last time to devise an instrument allowing astronauts to find their way without using computers...
Efrem Zimbalist Jr. he's not, but Clarence Kelley is a former director of the FBI, and he has taped a television spot extolling a product that promises to foil gem thieves. The instrument, marketed by Gemprint, Ltd., of Chicago, photographs a diamond's interior; the picture is filed at the company's headquarters, where it is always available to identify the gem if it is lost or stolen. "I can't deny I got into it to supplement my income," explains Kelley, who admits that his pay as a Gemprint director and huckster is "very...
...between free academic expression and free expression about how the University is run. It seems that when the community expresses itself freely about university governance, it is indulging in foolish distractions. Speaking of other universities, and obliquely of Harvard, Bok says that efforts to "use the institution as an instrument to influence political disputes...have weakened universities abroad by distracting their members from teaching and learning...
...asked for $11 million after her nine-year-old daughter was gang-raped with a beer bottle by three teen-age girls and a boy. The assailants had seen a similar rape of a girl by girls on a TV movie only a few days earlier, though the instrument was the handle of a plumber's helper...
...ever since Pope John XXIII launched negotiations to help East bloc churches survive. Though the appointment is regarded as John Paul's endorsement of this policy, Casaroli modestly shuns his common designation as the Architect of Ostpolitik. The Pope is the architect, he once said. "I am the instrument...