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Eagle Pass
Eagle Pass city (1990 pop. 20,651), seat of Maverick co., W Tex., a port of entry on the Rio Grande opposite Piedras Negras, Mexico; inc. 1918. Linked by highway with Mexico City, it is a tourist center and a shipping and processing point for cattle, wheat, pecans, and oats. Mineral processing (esp...
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Benoit B. Mandelbrot
Benoit B. Mandelbrot , 1924-, French mathematician, b. Warsaw, Poland. Largely self-taught and considered a maverick in the field of mathematics, he is uncomfortable with the rigorously pure logical analysis prescribed by Nicolas Bourbaki and relies instead on his talent for visualizing natural ph...
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Ken Livingstone
Ken Livingstone 1945-, British politician. Elected to the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1973 as a Labour member, he became GLC leader in 1981. His use of the local office to promote leftist policies earned him the nickname "Red Ken" and was a major factor in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ...
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William Proxmire
William Proxmire (Edward William Proxmire), 1915-2005, U.S. senator (1957-89), b. Lake Forest, Ill. He worked in army counterintelligence during World War II and later entered politics, serving (1951-52) as a Democrat in the Wisconsin state assembly. After three unsuccessful attempts at the governo...
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Phil Jackson
Phil Jackson (Philip Douglas Jackson), 1945-, American basketball player and coach, b. Deer Lodge, Mont. Jackson was an All-American at the Univ. of North Dakota. Drafted by the New York Knicks in 1967, he was a forward and a superb defensive player, remaining with the team until 1980. He then ente...
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Yves Saint Laurent
Yves Saint Laurent , 1936-2008, French fashion designer, b. Oran, Algeria, as Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. Moving to Paris at 17, he ultimately established houses of couture and boutiques there and in New York. He was the foremost assistant to Christian Dior and became his designated su...
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apsis
apsis (pl. apsides), point in the orbit of a body where the body is neither approaching nor receding from another body about which it revolves. Any elliptical orbit has two apsides. At the perigee the moon or other satellite is as close as it ever gets to the earth, and it begins to move away; at...
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Peter Hurd
Peter Hurd 1904-84, American painter, b. Roswell, N.Mex. Hurd left West Point to study art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He worked as apprentice to the painter N. C. Wyeth and married his daughter, the painter Henrietta Wyeth. Hurd is known for his realistic paintings of Western sce...
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Dallas
Dallas, UK, USA USA (Texas): the first settlement took place in 1841. In due course, as it grew, it was probably named after George M. Dallas (1792–1864), vice‐president of the USA (1845–9)....
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University Park
University Park city (1990 pop. 22,259), Dallas co., N Tex., surrounded by Dallas on three sides; inc. 1924. A residential suburb, the city is the seat of Southern Methodist Univ. Dallas Love Field Airport is to the west.
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