Word: wente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Muller, 34, was an idealistic undergraduate at New York's Hofstra University when he enlisted in the Marines and went to Viet Nam as a lieutenant. In 1969 he was shot in the spine and left paralyzed from the waist down. The disillusioning war and shabby treatment accorded the men who fought it turned him into a crusader. As executive director of the Vietnam Veterans of America, Muller is fighting for jobs, better benefits and respect for the 3 million Americans who served in Southeast Asia. Now a lawyer, he is a moving orator when addressing Americans about...
...study of cancer. Ptashne was majoring in philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Ore., when he became fascinated by a theory about represser molecules and switched to chemistry in his senior year. During the Viet Nam War, Ptashne was deeply involved in antiwar politics at Harvard and went to the extent of lecturing at the University of Hanoi. But he became disillusioned with leftist politics in 1976 when some radicals and others tried, unsuccessfully, to force the Cambridge, Mass., city council to deny Harvard and M.I.T. the right to conduct recombinant DNA experiments. Ptashne helped lead the campaign to allow...
...Back in 1966 when radicals briefly took over Indiana University's Bloomington campus, Tyrrell, then a graduate student, launched a paper called the Alternative ("to mainstream liberalism and the radical movement"). With a burgeoning list of contributors that included William F. Buckley Jr., and Irving Kristol, the iconoclastic monthly went national in 1970, changed its name to the American Spectator, acquired 22,000 subscribers and earned a reputation among intellectuals for good writing and biting humor. In his latest book, Public Nuisances, a collection of his editorials, Tyrrell fulminates against such targets as Jimmy Carter
...Jane M. Byrne, 45, shocked Chicago when she defeated Mayor Michael Bilandic and the Democratic machine in a primary and then went on last April to become mayor of the city where she had been born and raised. A protégée of late Mayor Richard Daley, Byrne had spent ten years as Chicago's commissioner of consumer sales and served one year as co-chairman of the powerful Cook County Democratic Central Committee. She is a scrappy reformer who is out to rechannel the Democratic machine's energies into delivering services for Chicago's neglected neighborhoods, especially...
...Marcia Ann Gillespie, 35, went for a job interview at Essence magazine in 1970 and ended up being hired as managing editor. She took the floundering publication for black women and gave it an audience, ad revenues and an editorial raison d'être. Serious service articles on health and careers replaced slick travel and fashion pieces. One of her big victories: persuading advertisers to use black models in ads for black consumers. "I wanted to show what black women really are: beautiful, courageous and incredibly vital people,' says Gillespie. Born in Rockville Centre, N.Y., and schooled at Lake Forest College...