Word: roger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...children, who a friend of the family described as "very polite, well dressed and bright," left handwritten notes in their hotel suite expressing their faith in their father's powers and his intention-not further explained-to destroy California. Said Police Lieut. Roger Kinnersley: "The father was the absolute authority in the family. They believed that without his being present, the family would cease to function. So it's very likely that they thought they were merely following him where he had gone...
Many academics have earned more than $75,000 in author's royalties, but U.C.L.A. Psychiatrist Roger Gould, 43, may be the first to make that much from someone else's book. Since 1969 Gould has been studying "adult life stages" in an effort to show that all men and women go through similar phases of psychological development. Manhattan Journalist Gail Sheehy, in preparing her 1976 bestseller Passages, borrowed enough from Gould's unpublished research that the psychiatrist sued for plagiarism. The suit was settled out of court, with Gould receiving $10,000 and 10% of Sheehy...
PEOPLE OF THE LAKE by Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin Anchor Press/Doubleday; 298pages...
...proto-man who flourished some 2 million years ago. The skull, labeled "1470" for its Kenya National Museum catalogue number, gave science a new idea of early man's appearance. People of the Lake provides some fresh ideas about how he lived. The book, written in collaboration with Roger Lewin of the British journal New Scientist, also offers some encouraging speculations on why hominids became humans...
Among those whom Conrad met in the Congo was Roger Casement...