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Some of the bugs in the shuttle did not catch the astronauts by surprise. During a midweek telecast, Lousma and Fullerton unveiled a cage full of insect passengers, three dozen caterpillar moths, house flies and honeybees. They were on board at the suggestion of Todd Nelson, 18, of Rose Creek, Minn., winner of a nationwide contest for high school students. The object of Todd's experiment: to determine the flight characteristics of various types of insects in zero-g. The bugs did not seem to get the idea. Except when their plastic containers were jostled by the astronauts, they...
That day I had dinner with Nelson Rockefeller at his residence in Washington. He held that the tapes should be destroyed forthwith. They represented a breach of faith with anybody who had entered the Oval Office. They lent themselves to a form of selective blackmail either by Nixon and his associates or by whoever wound up controlling them. But Nixon was at that time in a hospital with pneumonia. When he emerged it was too late; legal processes to claim the tapes had started...
Halperin has researched phase transitions for the past 12 years, but since joining the Faculty in 1976, he and colleague David R. Nelson, professor of physics, have specialized in the theory of two-dimensional solids...
...aristocracy with anecdotes drawn indiscriminately from Whitney's "tidy and voluminous files "Whenever Jock is on the verge of distinguishing himself, Kahn tells us what the man had for dinner, Before leasing for England to serve as the American ambassador, for instance, Jock bought $1.078.99 worth of wine from Nelson Rockefeller...
Evidence and anecdote in The Imperial Rockefeller support the realists. Yet the author, Rockefeller's speechwriter from 1966 to 1977, draws a sympathetic conclusion: "Nelson Rockefeller was never prepared to step outside the protective palisade of eastern Republican enlightened capitalist orthodoxy to take his stand ... It does credit to his seriousness of purpose that he long resisted, even disbelieved, the idea that a President was born of a thousand chicken dinners and a hundred thousand smalltown handshakes...