Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years (TIME, July 12, 1954). As a teen-age star, he had traipsed from one high school to another while his vastly ambitious stepfather hand-picked his coaches. As a college freshman, he had been auctioned off to the highest bidder and gone to the University of California at Berkeley. But Stepfather Harvey had not been pleased when Ronnie was treated as something of a rookie. Last year he brought his boy south to U.C.L.A., casually tossed away a year of Ronnie's eligibility to get him the chance of playing for Red Sanders...
...polio vaccination program took a body blow last spring when the disease developed in children injected with vaccine from the Cutter Laboratories of Berkeley. Calif. (TIME, May 9, et seq.). Doctors suspected that some of the vaccine must have contained live virus. Last week, after four months of investigation, the U.S. Public Health Service found fault with the Cutter vaccine and its own inadequate safety tests, since drastically revised. The PHS report...
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...boarding house near the University of California at Berkeley, a strapping, reddish-haired sophomore named Willard Frank Libby met two graduate students. Their talk about chemical research was so exciting that Libby forgot his yearning to be a mining engineer, and switched to chemistry. Because of that chance meeting, Willard Libby, 46, sat in Geneva's stately Palace of Nations this week as the ranking U.S. scientist and the chief U.S. spokesman at man's first international effort to release the unplumbed benefits of peaceful atomic energy...
Despite this, all seemed calm last week at Cutter's 20-acre Berkeley laboratory and at its $1,000,000 Chattanooga hospital solutions plant. The three executive Cutter brothers-Dr. Bob, 57, the president; Executive Vice President Ted, 53 (sales, production); Vice President Fred, 51 (research, controls)-were doing business as usual. Sales were running slightly ahead of last year's $14,850,000. The company had not discharged any of its 1,097 employees, and had, in fact, even added a new biologicals controls building to the 37 others at the Berkeley plant. Said Fred Cutter...