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...money for the movies. Mike was born in Rome, where his father was U.S. military attaché. By the time Mike was graduated from West Point in 1952 his father was a retired two-star general, his older brother was a colonel, and his uncle, J. Lawton ("Lightnin' Joe") Collins, was Army Chief of Staff...
...Lawton M. Chiles Jr., 44, Florida's self-styled "progressive conservative" Democratic Senator, won election four years ago after staging a 1,000-mile, cross-state walkathon. As a member of the "Class of 70," a small group of freshmen legislators bent on reforming the Senate, Chiles, a lawyer, decries the chamber's inefficiencies and has sponsored a "sunshine" bill that would open most congressional committee meetings and federal agency hearings to the public. "We're hidebound and hobbled," he says. "We're so far behind the state legislature of Florida in our decision-making capacity...
There is a Tuesday morning prayer breakfast, which just last week heard Senator Lawton Chiles talk about Solomon's request to the Lord to give him a heart capable of listening to the people, of discerning right from wrong. About 20 people attended, including Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz. Now and then, men from the White House protective service, including policemen and Secret Service agents, have a prayer meeting. There also is a young women's group that with some regularity meets to study and discuss the Scriptures...
Rent for the Byerly offices, owned by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will be $5 per square foot--less than half of the rent paid for office space in the Corporation-owned Holyoke Center, Frank A. Lawton, assistant to the dean of the Faculty, said last week...
...hoax." Astronomer Bracewell himself doubts that the echoes were deliberate; he suspects that they were caused by a still-undiscovered natural effect in the atmosphere. Fanciful or not, Lunan's theory is not being dismissed altogether. At the London meeting, a leading British computer expert, Anthony Lawton, announced that Lunan's theory would soon be put to the test. For the next year, Lawton said, he will send off blip-like radio signals into space at regular 30-second intervals in hopes of stirring the putative probe into another response. As a precaution, however, he is keeping...