Word: owen
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...most interesting moment will come on the night of Oct. 20 when the comet will skim by the sun's surface, perhaps as close as 300,000 miles (the sun's diameter is 900,000 miles). Owen J. Gingerich, lecturer on Astronomy, and Brian Marsden of the SAO expect the total brightness of the comet may then, rival that of the crescent moon, and its tail may extend more than half-way from the horizon to the zenith...
EDWARD L. OWEN JR. Valhalla...
Owned by Houston Oilman K. D. Owen, trained by Stanley, and beaten only once in 28 starts, the chocolate-colored three-year-old colt had won more money ($280,566) than any other Hambletonian contestant in history. The only real competition was expected to come from a rawboned Canadian filly named Armbro Flight, who was riding an even longer winning streak: 22 straight, but mostly against weaker horses. Nobody, including Dancer, gave much thought to the chances of Egyptian Candor, owned by Stanley's wife Rachel, trained by Stanley and driven by Del Cameron, an old family friend. After...
Another volunteer witness, Charles Callas, an unemployed New Yorker who worked for the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee as a junior reearcher in 1952, claimed that while Fortas served as attorney for Owen Lattimore, he had "deliberately withheld" from Senate investigators information about a Communist at the State Department. "That is absolutely inconceivable to me," Fortas said. "I have never, would never, could never, in any way, misrepresent directly or indirectly or by implication anything to a committee of the Congress or to a court-and I hope to anybody else...
Between corporate assignments, Fortas labored with intense dedication on nonremunerative civil-liberties cases. In the early '50s, he successfully defended Johns Hopkins Scholar Owen Lattimore on charges of perjury. (Lattimore, testifying before a Senate committee, denied supporting Communist causes.) In 1954, Fortas persuaded the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to broaden the definition of legal insanity in the light of psychiatric knowledge, a decision that is still reverberating through the courts. In 1962, the Supreme Court picked him to appeal the celebrated Gideon case; he argued brilliantly and induced the court to rule that...