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Erik H. Erikson Professor of Human Development Emeritus and father of the "identity crisis" concept, has been named the second Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities for 1973 by the National Endowment for the Humanities...
...Jefferson Lectureship, which carries an award of $10,000, was founded last year to bridge the gap between scholarship and public affairs by inviting scholars of international reputation to deliver a series of lectures to government officials, educators and journalists...
...Chablis and rosé age. Inside the buildings, squads of chemists pore over their latest oenological formulations, while viniculturists experiment with ways to improve soil and vines. Wine-the beverage that was prescribed as a medicine by Hippocrates and celebrated in poem or aphorism by Euripides, Shakespeare and Thomas Jefferson-has become a modern, fast-growing, competitive industry...
...will come seeking a change from the burning toughness of gin and bourbon. Others will move up from pop wine to drier, more complex wines. Americans seem to be shedding the nation's raw, hard-drinking past for a new, more subtle way of indulging themselves. As Thomas Jefferson said: "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage...
Voters in Jefferson County, Colo., the nation's fifth fastest-growing county, approved a 1½% sales tax to be used solely for the purchase and maintenance of open space. The unique measure is expected to raise about $2,000,000 annually for wildlife habitats, parks and recreational facilities. But the issue that kindled high passion across the rest of the state was that of the 1976 Winter Olympics. Governor John Love had waged a crusade to bring the Games to Denver and won the bid from the International Olympic Committee. To his extreme embarrassment, Coloradans voted...