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...free money for the new mission. Members will want to protect existing projects in their states or districts, not to mention NASA research on climate and astronomy that they believe is worthy. "Human beings in space isn't going to be the driver of our science policy," says Sherwood Boehlert (R., N.Y.), chairman of the House Committee on Science. He applauds Bush's plan but is already braced for a fight over potential cuts...
Beller, who is writing a biography on playwright and screenwriter Robert Sherwood, flew out from Los Angeles to come to the meeting...
Gilley's turn from small-time musician to big-time entertainer sprang from someone else's idea. In 1971 businessman Sherwood Cryer saw Gilley play and invited him to be a partner in a new club. In an offer that would change Gilley's life, Cryer said he would pay Gilley half the profits for playing six nights a week--and convinced the dubious musician that the club should be named Gilley...
...seemed like a colossal blunder at the time,” says Sherwood E. Bain ’45, who has analyzed and written about Harvard’s finances for years as a Boston investment banker...
DIED. GEORGE WYLE, 87, creator, along with producer Sherwood Schwartz, of one of TV's most whistleable tunes, The Ballad of Gilligan's Isle, the theme from the popular 1960s sitcom Gilligan's Island; of leukemia; in Tarzana, Calif. He wrote more than 400 other songs, including the Christmas classic The Most Wonderful Time of the Year...