Word: samuel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, will go to jail on Tuesday unless the U. S. Court of Appeals grants his lawyers' request for another deferment of his prison sentence. The appeal will be based on the grounds that the Supreme Court is likely to hear Popkin's case during its coming term...
...Palace (depressingly severe). The reason was simple. The U.S. Population Institute served a delicious free lunch there: marinated river salmon with sweet mustard, herring in fresh cream, tiny meat balls, thick slices of rare roast beef. To ask an environmentalist to dine, however, is to ask for trouble. Dr. Samuel Epstein, the Cleveland toxicologist who first warned of the harmful effects of the detergent component nitrilotriacetic acid (NTA), contended that the beef was full of cancer-causing aflatoxins. "Don't know why the Swedes don't get rid of them," Epstein said. "They are so easy to detect...
Here, as in his fine first novel, The Pursuit of Happiness, Thomas Rogers deals in blessed innocence. Problems and difficulties exist for Samuel Heather, Rogers' "child of the century." But so do miraculously facile solutions. Happiness does not depend on the sweaty pursuit of knowledge. Heather simply acquires his erudition and wisdom from Rogers, a professor of English at Penn State, and wears it with casual eccentricity. Scenes, values and fortunes change as easily as channels on a TV set remotely controlled from a comfortable couch...
When the Pentagon Papers appeared in newspapers around the United States last June, Samuel L. Popkin, assistant professor of Government, was about 8000 miles away, in Hong Kong. The study, he said later, "certainly did not light bulbs and ring bells in my head...
Most people can't do it. When Charles Maier's contract came up for review last winter, his book was still in manuscript. While that may have been a factor in his case, the tenure bid of his colleague, Samuel R. Williamson, was also shot down. And Williamson had already written one prize-winning book and had another book in the works...