Word: marvins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Individually, meanwhile, many of them give every sign of knowing who they are. Here is one who says he is Marvin Schwartz, 46, a math teacher who took est training. Says Schwartz: "I used to stutter badly. With est I got off stuttering. My life is a sword now." Here is Peter Wetzler, 25. He meditates, runs, is "into" yoga and is happy "just being here and seeing the possibilities." Here is Sil Read, 23, another est grad, who thinks attending The Event is "like going into a beautiful church." There in a $60 seat, a matronly woman sits confiding...
...midweek there was a welcome shift away from finger pointing to genuine selfcriticism. The National Security Council called in some academic experts on Iran, including University of Chicago Professor Marvin Zonis, for a closed-door seminar on the lessons of the past few months. At the CIA there were a number of informal post-mortems on what one participant acknowledged had been a "massive intelligence failure...
...neighboring Maryland, the state Democratic administration had also been scarred by corruption. The Governor himself-Marvin Mandel, was found guilty and forced out of office. One of his cabinet members, Transportation Secretary Harry Hughes, 51, quit in May 1977 in protest against an attempt to meddle with Baltimore subway contracts. Hughes, once so obscure that he was described as "a lost ball in long grass," in September upset Mandel's successor, Acting Governor Blair Lee III. Last week, Hughes' fresh face was too much for for mer Republican Senator J. Glenn Beall Jr., who had difficulty explaining...
...talking about having computers monitor the internal workings of cattle, so that farmers could calculate better how to fatten them. The computers could read radio-telemetry signals on body temperature, heartbeat and respiration rates from transmitters swallowed by the cows or carried on backpacks. Already, an electronic entrepreneur named Marvin Marshall tours the dairylands of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount of milk...
...head of Princeton's physics department, Atomic Scientist Marvin ("Murph") Goldberger, 56, was so happy in his work that he turned away presidential-search committees from a number of universities. That was before he was asked to run the California Institute of Technology. Says Goldberger, who was formally inaugurated last week as the fourth president of 87-year-old Caltech: "As a scientist, I felt I had no choice but to take it. This is an incredible place...