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(Encyclopedia) Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, at Woods Hole, Mass.; est. 1930. In addition to oceanographic research, it conducts important work in meteorology, biology, geology, and geophysics. Its facilitie...
(Encyclopedia) Rozelle, Pete (Alvin Rozelle), 1926–96, American football executive, b. South Gate, Calif. As commissioner of the National Football League (NFL; 1960–89), he guided the league through expansion fr...
(Encyclopedia) De Niro, Robert Anthony, Jr.,
1943-, American film actor and director, b. New York, N.Y.
Both of De Niro’s parents were painters; De Niro was raised...
(Encyclopedia) Gore, Albert Arnold, Jr., 1948–, Vice President of the United States (1993–2001), b. Washington, D.C., grad. Harvard, 1969. After serving in the army in Vietnam and working as a reporter, he was e...
(Encyclopedia) games, theory of, group of mathematical theories first developed by John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. A game consists of a set of rules governing a competitive situation in which from two to n i...
(Encyclopedia) Mance, Julian Clifford, Jr.,
“Junior,” 1928-2021, American jazz
pianist and composer, b. Evanston, Illinois. Taught to play boogie and
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(Encyclopedia) King, Coretta Scott, 1927–2006, American civil-rights leader, b. Heiberger, Ala.; the wife (1953–68) of Martin Luther King, Jr. After her husband's assassination, she carried on his civil-rights w...
(Encyclopedia) Morgenthau, Robert Morris,
, 1919-2009, b. New York, N.Y, Amherst College (B.A., 1941);
Yale Univ. Law School (J.D., 1948). He was the son of Henry Mor...
(Encyclopedia) Ellery, William, 1727–1820, political leader in the American Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, b. Newport, R.I. While a member of the Continental Congress (1776–81, 1783–85)...
(Encyclopedia) Harris, Joel Chandler, 1848–1908, American short-story writer and humorist, b. Eatonton, Ga., considered one of the great American regionalist writers. As an apprentice to the editor of the Countrym...