Word: simpson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Simpson says there has been about a 30 per cent increase in science fiction sales over the last year...
Students from Boston University are apparently buying more science fiction books, Bill Simpson, who has worked at the BU store for six years, says. He says he believes this is because "students are studying more these days and science fiction is a way for them to escape from their humdrum lives...
Stormy Campaign. After serving as a gunnery officer in the Navy during World War II, Vance joined the prestigious New York City law firm of Simpson, Thatcher and Bartlett. His professional life changed course in 1957 when he became special counsel to the Senate Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. Vance caught the appraising eye of the chairman-L.B.J. In 1961 John F. Kennedy made him general counsel of the Department of Defense. There Secretary Robert S. McNamara soon put his talents to work in his stormy campaign to bring more efficiency to the Pentagon...
Saul Bellow loves the game. Elvis Presley has his own court. The football teams at Notre Dame and Michigan State practice it as part of their training programs. Illinois Governor-elect James Thompson and Wayne Rogers have learned it and, at a California club partially owned by OJ. Simpson, so have many others. In fact, nearly 3 million people have taken up racquetball-an indoor racquet game played on handball courts-in the past six years, making it the new boom sport of the tennis-conscious '70s. To accommodate it, new courts are rising as quickly-and conspicuously...
...Simpson said he does not think the reductions will make any difference in the committee's ability to carry out its functions...