Word: samuel
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Rusk's latest difficulty began when Dean Lindsey Cowen invited him to become the first holder of the heavily endowed Samuel H. Sibley Professorship of International Law at the University of Georgia Law School. Cowen thought the appointment a natural for the scholarly Rusk. "The Secretary of State makes international law decisions every day, and in fact, makes international law himself by the treaties in which he has a hand," Cowen reasoned. "There could be no man more qualified to teach and advise on international...
First Year Worst. Nor is this cautious attitude limited to oldtimers. Dr. Samuel L. Katz, 42, Duke University's brilliant pediatrician who worked with Harvard's great virologist John F. Enders, is chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee that is drawing up vaccination schedules for children. In its next revision, Katz insists, there will be "no recommendation banning mass vaccination programs for smallpox." That means no widespread change in the current practice of vaccinating infants between six and nine months of age. However, vaccination is three times as likely to cause severe illness in the first...
...Like Samuel Beckett, whose name is often coupled with his own as an influential modern writer, Borges enjoys a reputation based upon a very slender body of work. Unlike the reticent, reclusive Beckett, however, Borges is personally accessible. Though he is 70, and deaf in one ear, in addition to being blind, he willingly talks about himself, his work and the world. In recent weeks, he has been drawing standing-room-only audiences on a speaking tour of U.S. campuses. The visit coincided with the publication of the first English translation of The Book of Imaginary Beings. An alphabetically arranged...