Word: willson
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After Whipple retired and gained emeritus status in 1973, the HCO and SAO formally joined to form the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field took the helm at the center's 60 Garden St. offices, where the SAO and HCO are jointly housed...
...block the movement of munitions at the naval weapons station in Concord, Calif. Last week that classic act of civil disobedience ended in tragedy when a weapons train plowed into a group of peace activists, mutilating one of them. As other demonstrators leaped out of the way, S. Brian Willson, 46, was caught sitting cross-legged on the tracks. Willson's wife and stepson watched in horror as the train dragged him 25 feet, fracturing his skull and severing his right leg below the knee. Surgeons later amputated his other leg below the knee. The Navy claimed that the train...
...shared the bill with girls tenderized in lacquer and lace. The mood could be tender too. On the radio, a slow tune just naturally followed an up-tempo number; it was the heartbeat of teen America. The 19-year-old Aretha Franklin could take a Broadway spiritual like Meredith Willson's Are You Sure and transform it into a righteous steeple raiser. Baby, that was rock and roll...
George B. Field, Robert Wheeler Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy, said that the group is fasting to express personal support for Hyder's activism. "We want to draw attention to the urgency of ending the nuclear arms race and to Hyder's personal commitment," Field said...
...They cover a vast array of human knowlege. I'm planning to go to as many as I can," says Willson Professor of Applied Astronomy George B. Field. "They're an education in themselves." Field will also lead a seminar entitled "The Universe: The Beginning, Now and Henceforth...