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Another dustup occurred after Carter, backed by a U.S. Information Agency poll, claimed the U.S. had lost prestige abroad. Ford retorted by noting the recent U.S. sweep of Nobel Prizes. A group of U.S. Nobel prizewinners thereupon attacked Ford. Harvard Chemist George Kistiakowsky spoke for ten Nobel laureates in arguing that Ford had been too stingy with his budget "to encourage the growth of American science...
...unique problems involved in prosecuting a sitting public official began almost immediately after the Maryland Governor was indicted last November on charges involving bribery. The federal judge on the case was disqualified by an appeals court because a former law partner had a peripheral relationship to the case. Thereupon all eight other federal judges in Maryland also disqualified themselves. Finally, John H. Pratt, 65, had to be imported from Washington, D.C. Though virtually every Marylander knew about the charges, Pratt refused to move the trial to Virginia and began working his way through 240 jury candidates, mindful of the added...
...Thereupon, with a pickup crew that somewhat resembles a World War II movie platoon-a Chinese, a Japanese, a couple of woebegone Wasps, a Jew, a bitter widow, a good-looking woman doctor and a majestic black man-the professor sails west searching for the mysterious island that will convince his colleagues that he actually deserves a full professorship...
...page critique, Me & Ralph, Sanford seems obsessively concerned about his personal problems in editing the prickly Nader's syndicated newspaper column and about Nader's deteriorating relations with the New Republic. Sanford and Nader fell out over these not uncommon editor-author frictions in 1973. Sanford thereupon completed an anti-Nader article for Esquire, but was dissuaded from publishing it by then New Republic Owner Gilbert Harrison, a Nader man. Nader has not talked to Sanford since. He is not likely to do so soon, especially given some of the less than cosmic questions raised by his quondam...
...distance to market. So the business has remained a regional one, in which most companies are too small to indulge in sophisticated market analysis or production planning. As a result, the industry regularly goes through an 18-month cycle: encouraged by high prices, growers produce too many chickens; prices thereupon tumble, and production drops...