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Harvard economist and former Labor Secretary who is union leaders' choice to be rehired for that post . . . Age 62 . . . Educated at Berkeley, Stanford, Cambridge . . . Has taught at Harvard since 1938; rose to dean of faculty...
...back as the 1930s, Dr. Robert Stone of the University of California at Berkeley used neutron irradiation against cancer. But Stone's tests so severely damaged healthy tissue that the treatment was not revived until the 1960s at London's Hammersmith Hospital. The British physicians not only aimed the neutrons more precisely, but also adjusted the dosage so as to hold down immediate side effects...
From Boston to Berkeley and at as sorted points in between, a Soviet sci-fi movie called Solaris has been gathering momentum as the latest cult film. Based on a novel by the Polish author Stanislaw Lem, Solaris has to do with mysterious goings on at a space station, staffed originally by a crew of 85, which has been drastically depleted under sinister circumstances. By the time a psychologist named Kelvin (Donatis Banionis) comes aboard, the station is populated by two disturbed scientists and a host of phantoms, including a dwarf and a nubile young girl in a blue nightie...
...hard to stay in my chair," says Harvard Psychologist Richard Herrnstein. "Burt was a towering figure of 20th century psychology. I think it's a crime to cast doubt over a man's career." Professor of Educational Psychology Arthur Jensen of the University of California at Berkeley adds: "If Burt was trying to fake the data, a person with his statistical skills would have done a better job. It is a political attack. The real targets are me, Herrnstein and the whole area of research on the genetics of intelligence...
...Dutch diplomat, Van Haefton lived in Europe, Asia and Africa before entering the University of California at Berkeley in 1966. After graduating, he went into real estate in the Bay Area. Dealing in property appealed to him, but he soon decided that "selling houses in San Francisco was no fun." So he broadened his view to encompass the world and opened his esoteric firm...