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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troubles had other causes, of course; yet he surely deprived himself of much sympathy by conveying in his hour of triumph an impression of such total vindictiveness and insensitivity to those who were well disposed to him. (I was not directly affected, having been told by Haldeman that my letter of resignation would be a formality...
...daily at an initial price of $3.63 per 1,000 cu. ft. The gas involved amounts to less than 1% of total U.S. consumption and is far under the 2.2 billion-cu.-ft.-per-day deal envisaged in July 1977 when Pemex, the Mexican state oil company, signed a letter of intent with six American pipeline companies...
...Progressive case was infuriating. Hansen felt that the Government was guilty of a double standard, having allowed such information to be released in the first place. When his local activism on the subject caught the attention of Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois, Hansen wrote him an 18-page letter explaining how an H-bomb works. He also fingered three renowned scientists who had already made much of that information public in articles and interviews, but unlike the Progressive, avoided prosecution: Princeton's Theodore Taylor; M.I.T.'s George Rathjens; and Stanford's Edward Teller, who is considered...
Hansen was stunned by the explosion of notoriety that ensued. "I'm a very ordinary person," he said last week. "I never dreamed that my letter to Senator Percy would ever be published." In fact, publication was all but inevitable, since the letter somehow reached half a dozen papers. First the Peninsula Times Tribune (circ. 65,800) of Palo Alto, Calif...
...this week Rosovsky decided it was time to give his students some guidelines; he sent a letter to Wallace MacCaffrey, this year's History chairman, announcing he would no longer approve individual requests for leaves until the chairman submitted a chart, outlining the department's leave patterns for each year...