Word: berkeleys
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will assume leadership of the orchestra along with a position on the as Lecturer in Music next September. The present conductor, Michael instructor in Music, will give his final appearance in Cambridge with the orchestra on April 28, and will conduct the orchestra of the University California (Berkeley) next year...
Named were: Graham T. Allison, Jr., of Adams House and Charlotte, N.C.; Carl D. Elligers, of Lowell House and Brooklyn, N.Y.; Robert J. Gordon, of Quincy House and Berkeley, Calif., Alexander Korns, of Quincy House and New Orieans, La.; Ted W. Margadant, of Dunster House and Los Angeles, Calif...
Gardner, 49, a deceptively casual Californian who took his doctorate in psychol ogy at the University of California at Berkeley. A prewar teacher at Mount Holyoke, Gardner is himself an example of Carnegie foresight. The corporation spotted him when he was a Marine Corps captain assigned to the OSS, and by 1955 he was president. One of the few top "philanthropoids" to rise through foundation ranks, Gardner is also one of the few with a gift for words. Gardner chiefly drafted the Rockefeller Brothers Fund's famed The Pursuit of Excellence, followed it with his own thoughtful book, Excellence...
...actually prove to our people that we can have a better life from now on." After talking to Olympio, President Kennedy's thoughts followed in similar vein. Flying west to address a crowd of some 90,000 in the football stadium of the University of California in Berkeley, the President mused on the hopes and problems of the world's newer nations. "As new nations emerge from the oblivion of centuries," he said, "their first aspiration is to affirm their national identity. Their deepest hope is for a world where, within a framework of international cooperation, every country...
...From Berkeley, Kennedy flew to California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, 250 miles to the south, for a personal inspection of the facilities that help make his optimism possible-U.S. retaliatory missile power. Standing on a coastal hill, he watched an Atlas missile soar out over the Pacific, learned later that it had sped 5,000 miles downrange, landing within a mile of its target. It was the first time that he had seen an ICBM fired. Then, in the relaxing atmosphere of California's Palm Springs area, where he was a weekend guest at Bing Crosby...