Word: prescotts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...take the risk. The company at first leaned heavily on law-and textbooks, publishing some of the most famous U.S. legal treatises, such as Oliver Wendell Holmes's The Common Law. Gradually it moved into general literature, publishing Louisa May Alcott, Edward Everett Hale, Emily Dickinson and William Prescott's histories. Admiral A. T. Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power Upon History remolded military thought when it appeared in 1890. Among Little, Brown's current authors are Samuel Eliot Morison, J. D. Salinger, Bertrand Russell, William Manchester, Peter De Vries, Ogden Nash, Gore Vidal. Issuing...
...Conservative Republican John Tower won handily, was re-elected last year with a startling 57% victory margin. Next year, Tower will be a possibility for the governorship, along with freshman Republican Congressman George Bush, a 20-year Texas resident who is the son of Connecticut's former Senator, Prescott Bush...
BILL DAVIDSON Prescott, Ariz...
...prominent people. The result has been a good deal of creative, if sometimes spurious, gossip. Fairchild has thus been a large factor in fusing the fashion world with the jet set. Women's Wear also runs pungent theater reviews by Martin Gottfried and hippie book reviews by Peter Prescott, whose father Orville reviews more squarely for the New York Times. Circulation has risen in the past six years by 30%, to 65,000. "Fairchild is responsible for reaching a totally new audience," says Fashion Designer Bill Blass...
Williams quickly hypothesized tint the Rio Negro might in effect be an immense tea, pontaining infusions of plant and tree substances similar to the insect hormones. Scooping up the dark river water, Williams and his colleagues, Professors Fotis Kafatos of Harvard and David Prescott of the University of Colorado, freeze-dried and boiled the water to concentrate the chemicals in it, extracted them with solvents, then injected the resulting solution into immature cockroaches. Sure enough, the roaches all died without reaching sexual maturity...