Word: maher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...locale is Africa. Reporters are bee-swarming on the scent of deep trouble in the emergent nation of Kambawe. The dictator, President Mageeba (Clarence Williams III), is toughing it out with a rival faction. Three newshounds converge on the opulent, isolated home of Geoffrey Carson (Joseph Maher), a British businessman with the most mines to lose. Dick Wagner (Paul Hecht) is a hardbitten Aussie, and a staunch unionist with a habit of regarding the Daily Globe, his paper, as larger than the earthly one. He is visibly miffed to find that an idealistic fledgling staff writer, Jacob Milne (Peter Evans...
...Kevin Maher (Yale...
...country, and that he will be received at the White House-well, it's something that could not have happened even a few short years ago. Remember, we are only 100 years or so away from 'Rum, Romanism and Rebellion' in our presidential campaigns." Said James Maher, a student at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y.: "This Pope is different from the others. Since he is not an Italian, I see him as an outsider-a breath of fresh...
...practical, instruction. The classroom is a gleaming, $3 million air-conditioned simulation of the control rooms in 42 G.E. reactors now in operation around the country. With one important difference: the training center's controls are connected to a computer, not a reactor. Jokes Instructor Jerry Maher: "We have everything but Jane Fonda...
...previous day's noisy interruption, Higginbotham and Helton resume the tediously slow job of getting the reactor back into action. One by one they withdraw control rods, watching as the reactor temperature rises. The work must proceed with agonizing care, and the morning is nearly gone before Maher says, "O.K., guys, we're taking her up. Let's shift her onto line and make money." But Janacek stops to check his students' progress. "We've got damn good safety systems," he says. "But they're only as good as the operators...