Word: thomson
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Protesters staging mass demonstrations against a nuclear plant in a New Hampshire town. Conservative Governor Meldrim Thomson and his state troopers arresting some 1,500 of them. Power company officials warning that in the end the public will suffer by paying unnecessarily high electricity rates...
...somewhere else to digest, right? Two warnings: stay away from the place at lunchtime, when the Governor often has to call in the National Guard to keep the crowds in line, and beware of the pinball machines, which are about as generous and benevolent as Meldrim Thomson. But by all means don't pass this...
...additional six or seven fellows from foreign countries will be named by September, James C. Thomson Jr., curator of the Nieman program, said yesterday...
...Thomson said the fellowships provide an opportunity for early mid-career journalists to pursue subjects that they recognize they need to know, but would not otherwise have the time to study...
Nieman Fellows receive a stipend of $300 a week for 35 weeks. Fellows' spouses are treated as honorary fellows and are given all University privileges according to full fellows, Thomson said. The Nieman program also pays for child-care expenses, he added...