Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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None of Williams's belongings will be distributed by the trustees before the death of the playwrights's 73-year-old sister Rose, who had a lobotomy at the age of 24 and now, lives in an upstate New York sanitarium...
Ajemian joined Time Inc. in 1952 and rose to become assistant managing editor of LIFE. He came to TIME in 1976, and was the magazine's national political correspondent before taking over its biggest bureau. "Washington's contrasts have always been sharp and somewhat eccentric," Ajemian recalls. "The two Presidents I have covered have been opposites in styles of wielding power. Jimmy Carter was uncomfortable with it, Ronald Reagan has instinctively employed it. Power is Washington's industry, and watching its practitioners use it and project it has fascinated me for seven years...
...near weightless, germ-free environment of space may be ideally suited to manufacturing certain drugs, including interferon and insulin, as well as growth hormones and metal alloys. "We can speed up research drastically. For every new chemical created on earth, we could make five in space," says James Rose, a research director at McDonnell Douglas, the St. Louis-based aerospace company. The Administration has tried to encourage more space investment with tax breaks. It also heavily subsidizes the cost to private companies of launching satellites from the space shuttle. The U.S. Government does so because of stiff foreign competition from...
...Discovery's lift-off from Cape Canaveral, a rival space vehicle blasted into the heavens on a mission that was considerably less acclaimed but, for the commercial future of the U.S. space program, ominously successful. Ariane V 11, the latest effort of the eleven-nation European Space Agency, rose from the space center at Kourou in the equatorial jungles of French Guiana to an orbit of 22,300 miles above the equator. There the rocket deposited two communications satellites. One of them, like many of Ariane's payloads, was sponsored by an international communications agency. The other satellite...
...begun to be tallied. Perhaps the most eloquent statement on the damage to the national psyche came last week from the 90-year-old Earl of Stockton, who as Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. Bent with age and leaning on a silver-topped cane, he rose from a red leather bench in the House of Lords to deliver his maiden speech to a hushed, expectant house. Referring to the strike, he said, "It breaks my heart to see what is happening to our country today. This terrible strike is being carried on by the best...