Word: murrays
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...right to exist, the Palestinians now realize they risk losing the support of oil-rich Arab states if they do not soften their position. Wearing his usual cartridge belt and revolver, an unshaven Arafat outlined his opinions in an interview with TIME'S Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Beirut before taking off for the Afro-Arab summit in Cairo. Excerpts from the interview...
Existing legislation allows Carter to act on some of these proposals immediately. But as a courtesy he is submitting them to Congress, where reaction seems favorable. There is some outside criticism. Murray Weidenbaum, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, thinks that the President should have provided incentives to businessmen for on-the-job training of youths. More basically, he complains that Carter "has failed to come to grips with the fundamental factor behind teen-age unemployment-the minimum wage law." The AFL-CIO is now campaigning to have the $2.30-an-hour pay floor raised...
Kirkland's offensive spark was provided by Bob "Bear" Murray and Robert Wagmun...
Free and Inexhaustible. The fantastic voyage was proposed by a group commissioned by J.P.L. Director Bruce Murray to consider imaginative concepts for interplanetary exploration. A mission to Halley's comet, which returns every 74 to 79 years, has long been one of NASA's goals. But using conventional space-flight techniques to rendezvous and keep up with the glowing visitor-which reaches speeds of 198,000 kilometers (124,000 miles) an hour as it approaches the sun-would require enormous amounts of fuel and an impractically large and expensive rocket...
...hour-on a course to intercept Halley's comet in March 1986. Jettisoning the sail, and "flying station" just two kilometers above the comet's head, the ship will take TV pictures and readings to determine the visitor's composition and origin. Says J.P.L.'s Murray: "We don't have a clue about comets. The space sailer could help provide some...