Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Melvoin watched as motorists pleaded, cajoled and, not infrequently, remained civil while Harrington tried to equitably apportion his meager supply of gasoline. Concluded Melvoin: "A gas-station owner is just another confused citizen, trying to get a handle on what's going...
Kissinger did his best to quash rumors of a secret mission when he arrived in Cairo, accompanied by Wife Nancy and Son David, 17. Modestly describing himself as a "private citizen," he insisted that he was "not here with an agenda." His trip was actually prompted by the decision of Hebrew University to give him an honorary doctorate, which he will receive this week in Jerusalem...
...film director; of respiratory failure; in Los Angeles. The Hungarian-born Kadár, a wartime labor camp survivor, focused so sharply in his movies on the rights of individuals that Czechoslovak film authorities once suspended his license to work. He fled to the U.S. "to be a free citizen" when Soviet tanks crushed the brief "Prague spring" liberalization in 1968; that was three years after he had produced his masterwork, The Shop on Main Street, a haunting drama about an elderly Jewish woman who is betrayed to the Nazis by a cowardly collaborator...
Frank Trippett's Essay "A New Distrust of the Experts" [May 14] struck a responsive chord in me. As both private citizen and public official I've struggled with the decision as to which of conflicting "experts" to believe. Perhaps the essential element in choosing whom to believe is to decide what the question is. Is it truly a technical question or is it imbued with emotional and ethical content...
Considered by many as the greatest living mathematical astronomer, Chandrasekhar developed the theory of the dwarf star that explains the final stages of stellar evolution. Born in Lahore, India, in 1910, he became a U.S. citizen in 1953. His other research has included work in the dynamics of stellar systems, theory of stellar atmospheres, radiative transfer, hydrodynamics and hydromagnetic relativity. From 1952 to 1971, he acted as managing editor of Astrophysical Journal. Chandrasekhar received the 1966 National Medal of Science for his contribution to the study of cosmic dynamics. His books include Principles of Stellar Dynamics (1942) and Radioactive Transfer...