Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been doing all the dirty work, and the old man has been getting all the gravy." So Stephen Elko reportedly complained to the FBI about his former boss, Daniel Flood, 74, a 30-year Congressman from Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and the flamboyant head of the powerful House Appropriations Subcommittee for Labor and HEW. Largely on the basis of Elko's testimony, a Los Angeles federal grand jury last week indicted Flood on three charges of perjury, including one stemming, from a statement he made denying receipt of $5,000 in bribes to help some now-defunct West Coast...
Black holes apparently come in both economy and giant sizes. The gifted British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has shown mathematically that tiny black holes, dating back to the very origins of the universe, could exist. In the Big Bang, the primordial explosion that created the universe some 15 billion to 20 billion years ago, matter was hurled in all directions. In some places, Hawking says, quantities of matter roughly equivalent to the amount in a mountain may have become compressed enough to collapse, forming what he calls mini-black holes. Their circumference, as measured by their event horizons, could...
Most of the day he sits huddled in a wheelchair in his small, cluttered office at England's Cambridge University. At his side is a mechanical page turner that allows him to read without calling for assistance. Stephen Hawking has been confined to a wheelchair for eight years, the victim of a type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare, wasting disease of the nervous system and muscles. He cannot raise his head without great effort. He speaks only in a slurred monotone comprehensible to just a few intimates. Yet, at age 36, in spite of his heart-rending handicaps...
...gory drama in a big way, with not just one Duchess of Malfi but two. The Santa Fe Opera company, which has presented 20 American and world premieres in its 22 seasons, has just produced the American premiere of The Duchess of Malfi by British Composer and Librettist Stephen Oliver, 28. A second Duchess has simultaneously been staged at Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts, outside of Washington, D.C., this one a world premiere by American Composer Stephen Douglas Burton, 35, and Librettist-Conductor Christopher Keene, 31. Strikingly different?one discordant, the other warm-bloodedly romantic?...
Probably not, but just to save face with other Universities, most of which are in bad shape financially, Harvard has initiated a somewhat serious effort to cut back. Two years ago, a guy named Stephen S. J. Hall, former vice president for administration, had 115 brainstorms on how to save money. That was the winter Hall decided to turn off all the heat in the Houses over Christmas vacation,, producing extensive flooding due to cracked water pipes, costing a whole...