Word: berkeley
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After his speech, the Federation presented Kennedy with a poster portraying distinguished women and the Association for Women in Science, another sponsoring group, gave him a pin in recognition of his support, participating in the conference, either an ad from as far away as Berkeley, California and wires...
...rebuttal is that voting rights gains among blacks and reapportionment of state legislatures have given the poor greater political clout, making it less likely that legislatures will act harshly to lower current welfare and food stamp benefits. Political Scientist William K. Muir at the University of California in Berkeley agrees. "Thirty years ago, you had a political system rigged against the poor and the black. But by and large, that has been cured. It's very rare to see a diminution of the franchise once it has been obtained...
...electronic fences around computers, astute crooks are just as busy finding ways to break them down. Research into computer security, now going on at numerous companies and universities, has become almost as supersecret as nuclear-weapons development or germ-warfare studies. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and at SRI International are studying a frightening flaw in the programming of many computer systems that could allow criminals who find it to get around standard security measures. For obvious reasons, the investigators refuse to disclose the nature of this chink in a computer's armor until companies have...
Another cliche--the nation's campuses are quiet: youth doesn't care. I don't know about Berkeley or Notre Dame, but I do have some idea about Harvard. In the four years I've spent here, the conversations about what is wrong with the world and how to solve it are few and far between. And if talk is scarce, action is scarcer. I've read the bound volumes of The Crimson from 1969 and thereabouts again and again, they mean more to me than most of what has happened since I arrived here. Not because students knew...
...apartment, Senzani, the leader of the Rome column's propagandists, opposed the Dozier kidnaping, believing it to be irrelevant to the Brigades' true aims. Police theorize that the arrested courier was carrying the kidnapers' invitation to Senzani, who once studied at the University of California in Berkeley and speaks English, to assist in future interrogations of Dozier. In previous kidnapings-of Rome Magistrate Giovanni D'Urso and Christian Democratic Politician Ciro Cirillo-Senzani had served as the grand inquisitor...