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...Alva R. Myrdal, Bok's 80-year-old mother-in-law, shared the award with Mexican Alfonso Garcia Robles for their longtime crusades against nuclear arms...
...list of 71 nominees. Although virtually unknown outside human rights circles, he edged out such candidates as President Jimmy Carter (for his Camp David efforts), British Foreign Minister Lord Carrington and Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe (for their successful endeavor to end the war in Rhodesia), Swedish Disarmament Activist Alva Myrdal and Pope John Paul II. Pérez Esquivel, said 1976 Peace Laureate Betty Williams of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement, is "the greatest living radical pacifist leader." Noted the Nobel committee: "He is among those Argentines who have shone a light in the darkness. He champions a solution...
...INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Receiving No. Yds. TD Ron Cuccia (H) 3 61 0 Chuck Marshall (H) 3 55 0 Connors (H) 1 13 0 Alva Taylor (C) 2 54 0 Dan Suren (C) 2 31 0 Mark Turley...
...very first play from the Cornell 43, fourth-string Big Red quarterback, Doug Fusco, ran an option off right tackle and tossed a lateral--illegally, it turned out--to halfback Alva Taylor, who juked to the Harvard 39. A Harvard personal foul offset the illegal lateral, and Cornell kept the ball...
...Tiffany seemed content to rest on his considerable laurels as a decorator, having to his credit the nearly total redecoration of the White House for President Chester Arthur, and was concentrating on his glassmaking. He saw new opportunities in the invention of the incandescent bulb. Working with Thomas Alva Edison, he realized that something was needed both to soften the brightness of the new light and to conceal the bulb's unlovely shape. He came up with the lampshade that is perhaps his most famous design...