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Died. Edward Allen Pierce, 100, last surviving founder of the nation's largest stockbrokerage house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith; in Manhattan. In 1901 Pierce left his job as manager of a lumber business for a $20-a-week clerkship with the prestigious brokerage house of A.A. Housman on Wall Street. Twenty-six years later, the company's name became E.A. Pierce & Co. In 1940 E.A. Pierce & Co. merged with the investment banking firm Merrill Lynch; a year later Fenner joined, followed by Smith in 1958. Pierce continued actively to govern his empire until well into...
...second largest source of I.R.A. funds after Ireland itself, increasing attention is being paid to fund-raising activities among the 12.2 million Americans of Irish descent. Government sources in Dublin estimate that various individuals and groups in the U.S. have contributed $5 million or more to the Provos' war chest since the current troubles began in Northern Ireland six years ago, even though Dublin has tried to discourage such support throughout that period. There is still widespread sympathy for the cause, and open appeals for donations are sprinkled through Irish papers...
Arms Traffic. A number of organizations, ranging from the respected 138-year-old Ancient Order of Hibernians to the relatively new American Committee for Ulster Justice and the National Association for Irish Freedom, have been active, in one way or another, on behalf of the Irish Catholic cause. The largest and probably most important American organization that supports the Provisionals is the Irish Northern Aid Committee (Noraid), which has more than 70 chapters and claims a membership of more than 80,000. One of its officials testified before the U.S. Senate three years ago that American contributions do "not necessarily...
...unmanned exploration of the solar system is continuing to report stunning successes. In the past few years, robot spacecraft have surveyed the planet Mars in exquisite detail, sent back the first closeup pictures of Venus and Mercury, and penetrated the powerful radiation belts surrounding the sun's largest satellite, Jupiter. Now, after sweeping even closer to Jupiter than did its predecessor, Pioneer 10, last December, Pioneer 11 is beginning the long trip to its next target: Saturn...
...bugs, Pioneer will come no closer than 12,000 miles. Finally, the spacecraft will head out of the solar system, sending back signals that should continue at least until it reaches the orbit of Uranus (in 1985). After that the signals will be so faint that not even the largest antennas on earth will be able to pick them...