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...emerged from the jostling pack of contenders to win Walter Cronkite's job as father figure to the TV generation, Kuralt was not even in the running. Many viewers think he should have been. When he sat in for Cronkite a few weeks ago, Kuralt's warmth and humor set off an avalanche of mail to the CBS newsroom. "Mostly they told us we had picked the wrong man to succeed Walter," said one top CBS News producer...
Under the direction of Biochemist Robert Bandurski, M.S.U. botanists will try to germinate the remaining 1980 seeds One method they will use is vernalization, in which the transition from winter to spring is re-created by refrigerating the seeds briefly before exposing them again to warmth and light. The seedlings will be nurtured until they produce seeds of their own, in the hope that the progeny will offer clues about the mutating effects of 100 years' exposure to the natural radiation in the soil. Enough bottles remain buried to carry on Beal's experiment until 2040. More time...
...back. For a moment, Kennedy was hugged by O'Neill, while Carter shot him quick, anxious glances. After another fleeting handshake, Kennedy patted the President and moved offstage. He was called back by aides to pose for pictures beside the President. Then he was gone. There was no warmth, no clasped hands held high...
...cardigan sweater endures. It was the symbol of his first days of power. That rather austere garment, which he wore both for warmth and to show the American people he was one of them, has been upgraded to a fuller and more stylish model with a collar. It is neatly folded on these scorching days on a table along the wall of the Oval Office. That office remains fundamentally intact as he established it when he came to power, but it is now enriched with the acquisitions of his years in office?a vase from Sadat, a glass screen from...
Caught up in his dream, the Shah worked hard, putting in 15 hours a day at his desk in Niavaran Palace in Tehran. He seemingly found little happiness in either his public or his private life. He seldom smiled, and his voice lacked warmth or expression. His first marriage, to Egypt's Princess Fawzia, King Farouk's sister, ended in a 1948 divorce when the Shah concluded that she could not give him a male heir (a daughter, Princess Shahnaz, is now 39). Three years later, the Shah married Soraya Esfandiari, a beautiful Iranian commoner. He divorced...