Word: berkeley
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...healing gesture could come from Richard Nixon himself, suggests Theologian Claude Welch, president of Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union. "An honest admission of real guilt would do a great deal toward making sense out of the pardon." Somewhat optimistically, Welch observes that "a forgiving spirit"?like Ford's pardon of Nixon?"can precede awareness of guilt. Forgiveness is part of the process by which relations that have been destroyed, between two people or between one man and a nation, can be fully restored...
Even before détente, Russian and American scientists were trading views, visits and even data. But the cordial atmosphere is occasionally clouded by acrimony. Last week, for the third time in a decade, the scientific cold war between the University of California's Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and the Soviet Union's Joint Institute for Nuclear Research at Dubna, near Moscow, erupted anew. As before, the argument was over who had been first to manufacture the latest manmade* element...
Thomas H. Jukes Professor of Medical Physics University of California Berkeley...
Although there is evidence that older people are conservative by nature, Berkeley Sociologist Kingsley Davis points out that "some of the wildest political schemes ever known have been advocated by lobbies of the elderly and some of the most atavistic movements, such as the Nazi movement in Germany, were manned by dogmatic youth." Moreover, definitions of what is conservative change with the times. Social Security and Medicare, favorite issues of the elderly, were once considered radical notions. In Sweden, a low birth rate has raised the age level of the population without altering its essentially liberal outlook...
Brimmer won a Fulbright Fellowship to India in 1951, deferring admission to either Berkeley or Harvard graduate school. But on Brimmer's voyage home, Harvard cabled him to assure him of scholarship aid, "so I came to Harvard...