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Immigration. The Simpson-Mazzoli bill combined amnesty for many aliens already in the U.S. with criminal penalties against employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants in the future. Differing versions passed both Senate and House earlier this year. At week's end a conference committee was still struggling to find a way to placate Hispanics who feared the bill would encourage discrimination against them. Salvaging the bill would take a "miracle," said a House aide...
MARRIED. Sigourney Weaver, 35, commanding, lissome film actress (The Year of Living Dangerously, Ghostbusters) currently starring on Broadway in Hurlyburly; and Jim Simpson, 28, theatrical director and Yale Drama School professor; both for the first time; in Oyster...
...Simpson held honorary degrees from Yale, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge and was a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Royal Society of London...
...Simpson's close to 760 publications include, "The Meaning of Evolution" (1949), "Tempo and Mode in Evolution" (1944) and "Quantitative Zoology" (1939) which he published with his wife. Anne Roe, professor emerita of the Graduate School of Education...
...great a person in his personal life as he was in his scientific life," Simpson's wife said, adding that during the last five months of his life, he suffered from "a series of problems which exacerbated each other...