Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barbara A. Mikulski, 38, an ebullient, stubby (4 ft. 11 in.) member of the Baltimore city council, easily defeated ten rivals to win the Democratic nomination for Senator. Like Gore, Mikulski is unmarried, but there the similarity ends. A former social worker, she lives near her old Polish neighborhood and is active as a community organizer for the city's ethnic groups. Mikulski will face incumbent Senator Charles Mathias, 52, in what could turn out to be a fascinating election-liberal Democrat v. liberal Republican, ethnic v. the establishment...
...fact, until a dramatic remission allowed him to continue, expected to die before his book was finished. But not even such an affliction could stop his passionate research. A Bridge Too Far lists more than 220 books, articles and reports in its bibliography. The names of the British, American, Polish, Dutch and German soldiers and civilians he interviewed fill a 35-page appendix. A cast of thousands supplies quotes: from Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands to an acting mess sergeant from Surrey...
Died. Jacob Bronowski, 66, compleat scientist-humanist; of a heart attack; in East Hampton, N.Y. A Polish-born, Cambridge-trained mathematician who left a long career in teaching and government service in Britain in 1964 to join the Salk Institute in La Jolla, Calif., as head of its Council for Biology in Human Affairs, Bronowski wrote brilliantly on the role of science in man's self-fulfillment, and the evolution of the human intellect and imagination. Author of Science and Human Values and, with Historian Bruce Mazlish, The Western Intellectual Tradition, as well as two volumes on William Blake...
...baroque subplots, one involving the lost identity of Mrs. Farquarson's son, now grown to adulthood and doubt, and the other an entirely self-contained gangster movie. They are irrelevant but great fun to read-a fragment of boozy conversation in a bar or a bedroom, a Polish picnic with a cast of thousands, a gangland execution in which the 400-lb. guest of honor is carted to a packinghouse and recycled as lunch meat...
...four pounds over his football-playing weight; he stays in shape by two daily 20-minute swims and occasional rounds of golf (scoring in the 90s). He limits lunch to a salad or cottage cheese with ketchup, though he occasionally succumbs to ice cream. No teetotaler, he likes to polish off a hard day's politicking with two or three dry martinis with a pair of olives in each. Ford's colleagues are astounded by his stamina. He has been known to fly to Denver after a day's work in the House, deliver a speech, fly back to Washington...