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...Retired Armonk, N.Y., Businessman Lester Conrad, 68, and Philadelphia Stockbroker Walter Falconer, 60, set out in calm weather five months ago aboard Conrad's sleek 45-ft. Polymer III from Great Harbor Cay for West Palm Beach, a seven-hour cruise that Conrad had made at least 40 times. The Polymer III has not been seen since. The Coast Guard suspects no foul play, but friends and family of both men note that not only was Conrad an experienced yachtsman, but his boat was equipped with an automatically inflatable lifeboat and S O S radio beacons that would have...
...Lester Mitscher, professor of medicinal chemistry, said he began his research ten years ago because American Indians had used such plants to cure diseases...
McLaughlin apparently rolled up enough votes in the western end of Middlesex county to top veteran politician S. Lester Ralph, the other reform candidate trying for one of the two open seats on the commission...
...incumbent Michael McLaughlin in the race for county commissioner, he might be able to start on his promised campaign to wipe out county government--a bureaucratic sinkhole useful only as a source of patronage jobs. But electing Larkin is not enough--voters would also have to support incumbent S. Lester Ralph for the other open seat if they hope for reform, not so much because he is a progressive but because he is less regressive than McLaughlin. Currently under scrutiny for possible election law fraud, McLaughlin deserves nothing so little as another chance to play fast and loose with...
Four years later, the site on the Caspian Sea remains barren. Harvard abandoned the project in 1977 and there is still no graduate research facility in Iran. Lester E. Gordon, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development and a commission member, said at the time that the major issue the commission had to consider was the extent of Harvard's involvement in the project. Gordon said there were many reasons Harvard decided not to continue the project, including the objections that were raised by members of the commission against the Iranian government's violations of human rights...