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Though politics is the art of compromise, the bill owes much to the stubbornness of one Congresswoman from St. Louis. Democratic Representative Leonor Sullivan, an eight-term veteran who lost battle after battle to strengthen the measure in committee hearings, carried her lonely but vigorous fight to the floor of the House, finally won with an overwhelming 382-to-4 vote...
...plutocrat," he means it. He was born and raised a Roman Catholic in the tiny Mato Grosso town of Campo Grande on what was then the woolly fringe of Brazil's wild western frontier. His home was a rented room over a barbershop, where his mother, Leonor da Silva Quadros, the daughter of a small-time immigrant Argentine cattleman, tried to keep house, and where his pharmacist father, Gabriel, made life miserable for them both. Gabriel, says one of Quadros' close friends, "was abnormal-a real villain with a mania for women, displaying constant aggressiveness toward...
...bomb; then the Russian H-bomb; then the fission-fusion-fission bomb. Libby saw why AECommissioners were rarely lighthearted and gay. Then in 1954 he became a commissioner himself, by appointment of President Eisenhower on the recommendation of AEC Chairman Lewis Strauss. When he moved to Washington with Leonor and their ten-year-old twin daughters, Libby brought along a truckload of scientific apparatus and set up a laboratory in the Carnegie Institution, where he works furiously on personal projects (his current interest: amino acids) whenever his work on the commission gives a moment of respite. "Science is like...
Clean Shirts. In 1940 Libby married Leonor Hickey, a young teacher of physical education who first heard about Libby from a friend's maid ("He's not terribly exciting," said the maid, "but he always wears clean shirts"), and still regards him as a goodhearted country boy who wears unsophisticated clothes. "He thinks he's a wonderful bridge player," confides Mrs. Libby, "but he's really lousy." Libby got a Guggenheim Fellowship and moved to Princeton, but a few months later the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and he offered his services to Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey...
...avalanche, the party came to a deep crevasse and spotted in it with searchlights a climber's torn coat. Near by, the rescuers found the first body, that of a college football star, Humberto Areizaga. As they dug deeper they were horrified to hear muffled voices beneath them. Leonor Colin, a 21-year-old student, and Francisco Meneses, a husky blacksmith, were buried under huge blocks of ice. Rescuers chopped futilely with their alpine ice axes. "Where is my mother? I want to see her again," the girl sobbed just before she died. Soon afterwards, the blacksmith died...