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Stepping into one of the hottest spots in Washington is Eger (pronounced Eager) Vaughan Murphree, 57, an industrial research expert with little specific knowledge of missiles but an impressive record for getting results in engineering projects. No stranger to atomic weapons, Murphree was a World War II member of James B. Conant's scientific research and development committee, under which the Manhattan Project was launched to build the Abomb. Later Murphree supervised the design of a heavy-water plant in British Columbia and served as chairman of a group that helped develop centrifugal separation of uranium isotopes. Since World...
...Stranger. In Asheville, N.C., asked by police who picked him up on a disorderly conduct charge how many times he had been arrested, Herman Banks said that he didn't know: "My wife has had me up here so often my dog follows the police cruisers...
...kilted chief of Scotland's far-flung Clan Campbell, Ian Douglas Campbell, eleventh Duke of Argyll, came in line for a windfall of at least $140,000 from the estate of a stranger, a London-born lady named Mrs. Eliza Sale, who died last December at 88. The big clue behind Eliza's bequest: her maiden name was Campbell. Glowed the duke, a well-heeled man: "I can only assume that the bequest was made to me as head of the Clan Campbell . . . It was a most admirable attitude for the lady to adopt...
...setting is a Vermont village adorned in the technicolor hues of Autumn. Harry, a stranger, is found dead at the top of the hill. The rabbit-hunting old man, the frustrated town matron, and the rebellious wife all suspect each is responsible for the evil deed himself. The first two are remorseful, the last seems pretty relieved...
...music himself. The story is a salty, zany rewrite of the Persephone legend. The young goddess is hoping for a man to come along before she gets "broad in the beam and saggy"; first Pluto catches her, then is talked out of his catch by a fast-singing stranger who turns out to be Apollo, who is himself caught. The music is neat and attractive, tonal but shifty in the English folksong-arrangement tradition...