Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ultrahigh-frequency television stations that are gradually spreading across the country may be reaching an unexpected audience. UHF transmissions, says Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers President Bernard Oliver, may have already provided the first evidence to extraterrestrial civilizations that intelligent, or anyway TV-producing life exists on earth...
...politics works in Cambridge. Besides Maher, who is an Irish Catholic and draws support from many of the same groups as Sullivan, the group included Thomas Coates, a Negro Councillor endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association; Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, the Council's only Republican and also CCA-endorsed; Bernard Goldberg, a Jew and an independent (non-CCA) Councillor; and, of course, Hayes, an independent with a relatively restricted base in North Cambridge...
Some tutors grumbled about Handlin's tactic, but he quickly set up the promised five-man committee with himself as chairman. The other committee members were, like Handlin, all prominent senior members of the Department: Giles Constable, Elliott Perkins, David E. Owen, and Bernard Bailyn. The eight tutors had one meeting with the committee before the academic year ended in June. "We talked quite openly about what was going on," said one, "and reached a sort of agreement about sophomores." But the question or honors remained undecided, particularly whether the senior seminars would be used as equal substitutes...
Related evidence discussed last week suggests that RNA extracted from the brains of trained animals can be used to accelerate learning when injected into untrained animals. Converse evidence that chemicals are involved in forgetting came from the University of Michigan's Dr. Bernard W. Agranoff, who reported that trained goldfish forgot how to avoid a shock, and untrained fish did not learn as well after injections of the antibiotic puromycin...
...five independents -- Maher, Sullivan, Vellucci, Daniel J. Hayes Jr., and Bernard Goldberg -- caucused for about twenty minutes before the Council's inauguration ceremony began. They could not agree on a unanimous choice, and according to one report, discussed the possibility of a "round robin": a different independent would receive four votes on each ballot...