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...solar power as an energy source. Not that he has given up on conventional energy. His next goal, he says, is to promote a lightweight, two-seat plane with a gasoline engine so efficient that it can fly round the world nonstop without refueling. - By Frederic Golden. Reported by Ken Banta/London and William Dowell/Paris
...borne herself with grace and played impeccably. For the few moments that she stood on Centre Court, the championship salver held high overhead, Wimbledon was able to forget its problems. As well it should in the presence of a queen. -By BJ. Phillips. Reported by Ken Banta/Wimbledon
Sanders' new job will "make him one of the very top people at Squibb." Ken Rabin, director of public affairs for Squibb, said yesterday at the company's international headquarters in Princeton...
...Koch's feelings about nonwhites, about blacks especially, are mixed and volatile. In 1979 Journalist Ken Auletta was researching a two-part profile of the mayor for The New Yorker. Koch gave Auletta permission to go through a series of oral memoirs that he had recorded for Columbia University in 1975 and 1976. Among Koch's statements on race was this: "I find the black community very antiSemitic. I don't care what the American Jewish Congress or the B'nai B'rith will issue by way of polls showing that the black community is not. I think that...
Galbraith's diffidence on these matters can be overlooked with minimum difficulty, for the view of his biolographical landscape proves relentlessly fascinating. The journey begins on the Ontario farm where young Ken grew up, proceeds to the aforementioned dubious triumphs at OAC, then to the more highfalutin precincts of graduate study at the University of California at Berkeley (which he loved), Princeton (hated) and, eventually, in 1934, Harvard...