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...Force?base magazine, through a stint as a TIME copy boy, to his first best seller, 'Hell's Angels,' in 1967. There are absurdly elaborate screeds to collection agencies and complaints to banks about the color of his checks. The proud highwayman wrote to William Faulkner, suggesting that the Nobel laureate send him money; to President Johnson, nominating himself for the governorship of American Samoa; to the Postmaster General, protesting the introduction of Zip Codes. "If the sorrow of later Thompson is that more and more of his pieces read like celebrity walkabouts at 4 a.m.," Iyer notes, "the pleasure...
...school that can be nonchalant about a Nobel and relaxed about a Rhodes, University administrators are almost giddy about the "Innovation in Fair Housing Award," it received from the city of Cambridge earlier this year...
Simon S. Kuznets, Baker professor of economics, emeritus, wins the Nobel Prize for work done in the 1930s on national income accounting, including that of the gross national product...
...imps of literary happenstance could not have done better than News of a Kidnapping (Knopf; 291 pages; $25). It brings together the world's two best-known Colombians, symbolically locked in a struggle for their nation's soul. The first is the book's author, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel prizewinner and one of the greatest living storytellers. The other is the late Pablo Escobar, once head of the Medellin drug cartel and a terrorist responsible for hundreds of violent deaths...
DIED. ALFRED HERSHEY, 88, Nobel-prizewinning scientist who proved, by testing and stirring up viruses and bacteria in a household blender, that DNA carries genetic information; in Syosset...