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...degree in marine engineering from the Coast Guard Academy in 1945 and was stationed in Shanghai. There, in 1946, he met and married his wife Ariadna, of Russian parentage, who had lived in Harbin, Manchuria. In 1952, he received a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley and settled in as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine and Moore, the prestigious Wall Street law firm. While there he became friendly with Royal Little, the New England businessman who was putting together Textron, one of the first conglomerates-those companies that sweep together the most wildly diverse businesses. Joining Textron...
...California, the Berkeley Christian Coalition evolved from a wing of the Jesus Movement revival that dealt with the street people, university students, hitchhikers, political radicals and occultists found nowadays in large college communities. It runs a free university, a youth ranch, a drop-in hostel, a street drama troupe, the sprightly Radix newspaper, and the unique Spiritual Counterfeits Project, which acts as a watchdog on Oriental and occult movements in the U.S. "Our objective," says S.C.P. Director Brooks Alexander, 41, "is to expose and counter the broad patterns of spiritual deception within our culture...
Sigmund Diamond, professor of sociology and history at Columbia University, and Robert N. Bellah '48, professor of sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, both have charged publicly that they were victims of pressure and job discrimination while at Harvard during the early '50s. Both were then former members of the Communist Party. Since those allegations were made, several scholars have proposed that Harvard open its records to an independent researcher who could determine the true history of the University's actions during those years. Furthermore, several historians and sociologists of education have requested access to those files...
...corporation also interviewed William K. Muir Jr., a professor of political science at Berkeley, and Robert B. Handshumacker, a professor of pharmacology at Yale, at its Tuesday meeting. It will meet again on December 16, and may interview more candidates then...
...intellectual, Toffler is not a professor, and he is not particularly concerned about tenure or academic respectability. It is probably safe to speculate that Toffler has not read all the important books that you end up reading sooner or later if you hang around New Haven, Cambridge and Berkeley long enough. Nevertheless, Toffler and his breed seem to show striking originality and an absence of timidity which allows them insouciantly to ignore 300 years of social theory and discredit the work of hundreds of brilliant and dedicated academics in three or four sentences. Listening to Toffler is like a breath...