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Institutional Revolutionary party

(Encyclopedia) Institutional Revolutionary party, Span. Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), Mexican political party. Established in 1929 as the National Revolutionary party by former…

Chabrol, Claude

(Encyclopedia) Chabrol, ClaudeChabrol, Claudeklōd shäbrōlˈ [key], 1930–2010, French filmmaker, b. Paris, attended Univ. of Paris. One of the creators of the French “new wave” cinema of the 1950s and…

Wilder, Thornton Niven

(Encyclopedia) Wilder, Thornton Niven, 1897–1975, American playwright and novelist, b. Madison, Wis., grad. Yale (B.A., 1920), Princeton (M.A., 1925). He received most of his early education in China…

1999 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Fiction: Motherless Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem (Doubleday)General Nonfiction: Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior, Jonathan Weiner (Knopf)Biography…

George P. RADANOVICH, Congress, CA (1955)

RADANOVICH George P. , a Representative from California; born in Mariposa, Mariposa County, Calif., June 20, 1955; B.S., California State Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, Calif., 1978;…

Open Sailing Results, 1996

Laser: 1. Robert Scheidt, BRA (26 pts); 2. Ben Ainslie, GBR (37); 3. Peer Moberg, NOR (46). Tornado: 1. Jose Luis Ballester & Fernando Leon, SPA (30 pts); 2. Mitch Booth & Andrew…

Lynn Archibald Biography

Lynn ArchibaldAge: 52 former head basketball coach at the University of Utah and Idaho State; served as an assistant at Arizona St., Southern Cal, UNLV, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo and Cal…

Charles Averill BARLOW, Congress, CA (1858-1927)

BARLOW Charles Averill , a Representative from California; born in Cleveland, Ohio, March 17, 1858; attended the common schools; moved to Ventura, Calif., in 1875 and to San Luis Obispo County,…