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...DIED. ARTHUR RUDOLPH, 89, rocket scientist; in Hamburg, Germany. Rudolph developed the towering Saturn V booster that hurled American astronauts to the moon in 1969. But in the 1980s he was driven into exile after the Justice Department linked him to the use of forced labor at a Nazi V-2 rocket factory...
...right and work to attract disaffected moderates from the Republican ranks. However, College Democrats have been doing the exact opposite. Harvard's proud Democratic tradition includes the intellectual foundations of the New Deal and New Frontier, giving America luminaries and presidents from Franklin Delano Roosevelt '04 to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. '38. Today, however, Harvard Democrats are intellectually moribund. As U.S. News and World Report wrote in November, "At Harvard--long the cradle of liberal ideas and leaders--young Republicans outnumber Democrats...
Clay Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Science Arthur Jaffe, a noted researcher in the field of quantum theory, gauge theory and other areas at the interface of math and physics, has been elected to serve as president of the American Mathematical Society...
...expenditures show drastically better treatment for men than women, then that can make a huge difference under the law," Arthur Bryant of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice said in the New York Times...
...HAYSTACK, by Bonnie and Arthur Geisert (Houghton Mifflin; $15.95), is a prize: a fascinating, beautifully drawn progression of Midwestern farmscapes showing the yearly building and slow consumption of an enormous, barn-sized haystack. Hay in a big field is cut with a tractor and sickle bar, then raked into windrows and stacked with a hydraulic lift and pitchforks. The great hay pile then serves as both food and shelter, first for cattle, then for pigs, through the long winter. There's no preaching, but important lessons are learned about work and weather, and how life might seem in the vast...