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...research pilot who holds a Ph.D. in chemistry, was named last week to fill one of two seats in a manned orbiting laboratory. He will be the nation's first Negro astronaut. Lawrence hawked newspapers on the street as a boy, worked his way through Bradley University in Peoria, Ill., and became an Air Force jet instructor and weapons-research scientist. ·The prestigious University of Chicago appointed Dr. John Hope Franklin, 52, chairman of its history department. Author-Educator Franklin holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Harvard, has taught at Cornell, Cambridge, Wisconsin and California...
...only occasionally to watch Star Trek (his favorite TV show) and make an infrequent out-of-town trip to deliver a lecture or visit a publisher. Asimov dislikes traveling. "When you have been to other galaxies in your mind," he says, "there's nothing so exciting about visiting Peoria...
William Blackie, 61, board chairman of Caterpillar Tractor Co., stood in shirtsleeves under a light rain last week, watching a giant yellow tractor rumble through dense woods near Peoria, 111. As the machine darted and bucked, its blade ripped into an expanse oi full-grown oak trees, toppling them like so many toothpicks. Within 40 minutes, an area the size of a football field was cleared for farming. "Our machines are kind of dramatic," allowed Blackie, and the 50 other spectators could only agree. On hand for a three-day land-development conference sponsored by the Peoria-based company, they...
Romney got word of Licata's victory while speechmaking in Peoria, Ill. "We've just had terrific news," he announced to his audience. In fact, a doubleheader. The win gave a timely boost to his own national prestige, which, according to opinion polls, has been slipping lately. Licata's victory also gives the state G.O.P. a one-vote majority in the legislature's lower house, previously deadlocked 54 to 54, and may thus smooth passage of the Governor's embattled tax reform program. Next week...
...classic courtroom line. Yet when Assistant State's Attorney William Martin from Chicago put the question last week in Peoria, 111., the words cast a galvanic spell over the room. In response to the prosecutor's question, Corazon Pieza Amurao, 24, stepped down from the witness stand. The pretty petite (4 ft. 10 in.) Philippine girl, who alone survived the massacre last summer in which eight fellow student nurses were stabbed or strangled to death in a South Side Chicago apartment, walked toward Defendant Richard F. Speck, 25, and raised her hand toward his head. "This," she said...