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In 1977, Dr. Quentin West proposed consolidating three USDA units involved in technical assistance and development work into a single agency to be called the Office of International Cooperation and Development: the Foreign Development Division, the Science and Education Administration ( an interagency consortium funded by foreign currency earnings ), and FAS ' International Organization Affairs Staff.
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* Recollections of Steinmetz-A Visit to the Workshops of Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Emil J. Remscheid, General Electric Hall of History Foundation, 1977.
After the 1977 death of Dr. Ali Shariati ( an Islamic reformist and political revolutionary author / academic / philosopher who greatly popularized the Islamic revival among young educated Iranians ), Khomeini became the most influential leader of the opposition to the Shah.
Dr. Wiveca Stegeborn, an anthropologist, has been studying the Vedda since 1977 and alleges that their young women are being tricked into accepting contracts to the Middle East as domestic workers when in fact they will be trafficked into prostitution or sold as sex slaves.
Fred Astaire played Dr. Seamus Scully in the French film The Purple Taxi ( 1977 ).
In 1977 Dr. J. F. Mansfeld ( N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken ) presented the PD-R process ( Physical Development by Reduction ) in a speech at the Hotel International Zurich.
Speculation that an extended jam session would be released either under the title Mechanical Bliss, or Naked in the Jungle, or Stiff Upper Lip, came to nothing, and Morrison's next album was A Period of Transition in 1977, a collaboration with Dr. John, who had appeared at The Last Waltz concert with Morrison in 1976.
Thus, although the Naskapis had never filed a formal statement of claim or similar document, except for a draft history prepared by the late Dr Alan Cooke, the parties to the JBNQA accepted the legitimacy of their claims, and they entered into an agreement-in-principle with the Naskapis in the Spring of 1977 to negotiate an agreement that would have the same principal features as the JBNQA.
The subsequent albums The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein ( 1976 ), Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome ( 1977 ), and Motor Booty Affair ( 1978 ) all reached high on both the R & B and Pop charts, while Funkadelic was also experiencing significant mainstream success.
Dr. Wang also created WSFN (" Which Stands for Nothing "), a programming language for controlling robots and published by Dr. Dobb's Journal in September 1977.
* The Reverend Dr R T Kendall, Minister of Westminster Chapel ); prolific writer ; he completed his DPhil thesis, ' The nature of saving faith from William Perkins ( d. 1602 ) to the Westminster Assembly )' at Regent's Park in 1977
( 1 episode, 1977 ) as Dr. Jamison on Season 2, episode 7 " Has Anybody Here Seen Quincy?
In 1977, Dr. Mary Edwards Walker's medal was restored, and other reviews began.
Hall retired as Simon's Rock's president in 1972, handing the post off to Dr. Baird W. Whitlock, whose presidency ended in 1977.
Dr. Samuel McGill was Simon's Rock's president from 1977 to 1979, at which point Bard College became affiliated with Simon's Rock.
He is the son of Frank Crean, a federal Labor MP from 1951 to 1977, who was at separate times Treasurer, Trade Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister in the Gough Whitlam government, and the brother of Dr David Crean, a former Labor member of the Parliament of Tasmania.
As President and Chairman of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Foundation, he remained president for nine years following Dr. King ’ s death in 1968 until his resignation in 1977, when he became President Emeritus until his death in 1990.
The series pilot aired July 21, 1977 with F. Murray Abraham starring as Dr. Tony Menzies.
In 1977 he produced Dr. Feelgood's album, Be Seeing You, which included his own song, " That's It, I Quit ".
Dr. Dame Harriette Chick, DBE ( 6 January 1875 – 9 July 1977 ) was a notable British protein scientist and nutritionist.
* Dr. J. Graham Morgan ( 1970 – 1977 )
* Dr. John Godfrey ( 1977 – 1987 )
Dr. Fabelo received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Loyola University in New Orleans in 1977, a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 1979 and a Ph. D. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984.
* 1946 – 1977 Dr. Athens Clay Pullias
Christie revealed in her 1977 autobiography that the basic idea of the novel was first given to her by her brother-in-law, James Watts of Abney Hall, who in a conversation one day suggested a novel in which the criminal would be a Dr. Watson character: i. e., the narrator of the story.
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Starting from Julian Date 2443144. 5 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 00 ), corrections were applied to the output of all participating clocks, so that TAI would correspond to proper time at mean sea level ( the geoid ).
All three of these time scales were defined to read JD 2443144. 5003725 ( 1 January 1977 00: 00: 32. 184 ) exactly at that instant.
Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1977.
It was first put forward by Huber in 1977 and later taken up in the Dahlgren system of 1985.
In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.
* 1902 – Louis Beel, Dutch politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands ( d. 1977 )
* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )
Karpov was on record saying that he believed Spassky would easily beat him and win the Candidates ' cycle to face Fischer, and that he ( Karpov ) would win the following Candidates ' cycle in 1977.
* 1977 – Members of the British National Front ( NF ) clash with anti-NF demonstrators in Lewisham, London, resulting in 214 arrests and at least 111 injuries.
* 1913 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus ( d. 1977 )
Australia won the 1977 Centenary Test which was not an Ashes contest, but then a storm broke as Kerry Packer announced his intention to form World Series Cricket.
Largely assisted by the return of Boycott, Brearley's men won the 1977 series 3 – 0 and then completed an overwhelming 5 – 1 series win against an Australian side missing its WSC players in 1978 – 79.
* 1898 – Ernő Nagy, Hungarian fencer ( d. 1977 )
After 1890 came philosopher Josiah Royce ( 1855 – 1916 ), botanist Liberty Hyde Bailey ( 1858 – 1954 ), the Southern Agrarians of the 1920s and 1930s, novelist John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), historian A. Whitney Griswold ( 1906 – 1963 ), environmentalist Aldo Leopold ( 1887 – 1948 ), Ralph Borsodi ( 1886 – 1977 ), and present-day authors Wendell Berry ( b. 1934 ), Gene Logsdon ( b. 1932 ), Paul Thompson, and Allan C. Carlson ( b. 1949 ).
* 1907 – Eric Shipton, English mountaineer ( d. 1977 )
* 1977 – The United States Senate begins its hearing on Project MKUltra.
* 1977 – Tandy Corporation announces the TRS-80, one of the world's first mass-produced personal computers.
* 1923 – Jean Hagen, American actress ( d. 1977 )
* 1977 – Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of the Republic of Cyprus ( b. 1913 )
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