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...been in various science departments here ever since, staying longest in the Physics Department and becoming less and less happy with her work as time went on. Schroder left Physics in October, after William M. Preston, director of the Physics labs, complained to the Personnel Department about the quality of her work. District 65 provided Schroder with a lawyer, and after a series of hearings and a month of paid suspension Personnel resolved the matter by relocating her with Layzer, one of Harvard's most liberal professors. "At first," she says, "I thought I had such a hard time because...
...Institute and State University, had to catch a 6 a.m. plane, it was Susan who cooked his breakfast. Despite certain reservations, Susan and her friends find the White House a teen heaven. They bowl in the downstairs alley, dance in the top-floor solarium, enjoy movies (most recent: The Longest Yard, with Burt Reynolds) in the White House theater...
...lots in a city auction. He has freely acknowledged influencing the placement of millions of dollars worth of city insurance with an agency that employed one of his sons. Neither issue is expected to have much impact on the voters. Daley's prospects seem excellent for remaining the longest-running big-city mayor...
Americans who fondly remember the days when both Canada and the U.S. boasted about sharing "the longest undefended border in the world" may be inclined to dismiss such extremist literary nonsense out of hand. Yet the best-selling Rohmer novels are bizarrely representative of one aspect of the current Canadian mood: a rising nationalism and its inevitable corollary, a growing anti-Americanism. The Toronto Star published a story last September alleging that the U.S. had actually massed tanks and heavy artillery at the border in preparation for an invasion during the terrorist kidnapings and crisis in Quebec in October...
...Worth Star Telegram; both for the second tune; in Washington, D.C. Woodward's enterprising colleague, Carl Bernstein, who only learned of the secret marriage with an hour to spare, provided boutonnieres niched from a hotel flowerpot. ∎ Died. Cornelius Ryan, 54, bestselling chronicler of World War II (The Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far); of cancer; in Manhattan. Born in Dublin, Ryan studied the violin at the Irish Academy of Music before becoming a war correspondent in 1941. He covered the D-day invasion for the London Daily Telegraph; he reported postwar atomic tests...