Word: mcnair
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...John McClellan, Georgia's Richard Russell, Louisiana's Allen Ellender and Mississippi's James Eastland were returned to the Senate with little or no opposition, a number of more progressive Democrats also won statewide office?notably Buford Ellington, elected Governor of Tennessee, and South Carolina's Governor Robert E. McNair, who as Lieutenant Governor acceded to the top job last year when Governor Donald Russell resigned. In Virginia, the big winner was William Spong, the moderate Democrat who ousted Senator A. Willis Robertson in the primary...
...SOUTH CAROLINA GOVERNOR 81% of the vote U.S. SENATOR (2 years) McNair (D)* 191,000 Ropers (R) 136,000 Thurmond (R)* (winner) Morrah (D) U.S. SENATOR (6 years) Hollings (D) (winner Parker...
ANDREW H. McNAiR Professor, Geology Department Dartmouth College Hanover...
Mother Lode. Geologist McNair made his discovery last summer after sighting a distinctive rock ledge on remote Victoria Island in the Canadian arctic. Clearly visible on the surface of the Pre-Cambrian rock, which had somehow escaped the disturbances of mountain building and the pressures of overlying rock, were the fossilized tracks of burrowing, wormlike animals -an encouraging indication that more fossils might be near by. Says McNair: "I knew how gold prospectors felt when they stumbled across the mother lode." Splitting open the rock, he found the remains of 47 primitive, clamlike brachi-opods that radioisotope dating proved...
...Before McNair's discovery, there had been no evidence that advanced forms of life existed until the Cambrian period began, 600 million years ago. Many scientists believed that there was not enough oxygen in the Pre-Cambrian atmosphere to support the development of animals with specialized organs. Now the highly evolved and efficient digestive, locomotive, respiratory and nervous systems of McNair's brachiopods and worms suggest that the earth's atmosphere had an ample supply of oxygen 720 million years ago, and probably for much longer than that...