Word: willard
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...DIED. Willard Frank Libby, 71, nuclear pioneer whose "atomic clock" for dating ancient objects won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960; of a blood clot in the lung; in Los Angeles. A participant in the World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear...
...when Willard M. Chandler, a staff assistant in the Office of Fiscal Services, wore shorts to work in the heat of the summer, his supervisors hastily convened and deemed such attire "improper...
...Willard M. Chandler, a staff assistant in the Office of Fiscal Services, said a memo from his superiors declaring that shorts are inappropriate for office wear was a personal slight...
...Willard R. Pope '63, general counsel for the DEQE, said last week Fierra could decide simply to review the data himself, or conceivably open the plan to more debate in open hearings...
...Willard R. Pope '63, general counsel to DEQE, said yesterday, "I think we have been following a fair procedure and our actions are based on the evidence that was developed in those hearings and not something that was done secretly as they seem to think...