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...Disturbing the Universe. Freeman Dyson is a proven scientific commodity. Robert Oppenheimer hailed his successful synthesis of two seemingly irreconcilable but equally correct theories of the electron as one of the century's breakthroughs. Now the Alfred P. Sloan foundation has asked him to contribute his bit to "the public understanding of the scientific enterprise...
Cambridge developers challenging the ordinance in court will have to wait a week for a public hearing on the case, originally scheduled for today. Lawyers for the city contended they needed the extra time to review affidavits in the case...
...strongly supported Carter. Schmidt told colleagues: "The West must show unity. We must back the U.S." If the Europeans were restrained, it was probably because 1) it was a time for "cool professionalism," as an American diplomat put it; 2) the U.S. had not asked for or expected stronger public support; and 3) Iran supplies 9% of West Germany's oil imports and 20% of Britain...
Actually, Klutznick has been saying yes to Presidents for decades. Son of a Kansas City, Mo., businessman, he earned his law degree at Creighton University in 1930 and practiced in Omaha until 1944, when he became commissioner of the Federal Public Housing Authority. Since then he has served in part-time posts for every President except Richard Nixon, including two years as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Economic and Social Council during the Kennedy Administration...
What Carrington lacks in personal ambition is more than compensated for by the deep sense of noblesse oblige that has inspired his lifelong commitment to public service. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he won the Military Cross as an officer in the elite Grenadier Guards during World War II. An active member of the House of Lords since 1938, Carrington held government posts under Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden before being sent as High Commissioner to Australia in 1956. Three years later, he was named to the prestigious post of First Lord of the Admiralty. He served as Secretary...