Word: besting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stolen) during a sit-in last May. Among them: a detailed list of faculty salaries, plus strong evidence that Stanford values researchers far more than teachers. According to the filched papers, a political scientist admired by students for undergraduate teaching gets $6,500 less a year than professors known best for research. One memo from a department chairman ridiculed an able teacher for publishing little besides a revision of his doctoral dissertation and vetoed, despite inflation, his salary raise on the ground that he is not sufficiently "productive...
Tommy Strunk, a 28-year-old Kentucky railroad worker, was slowly dying of a kidney disease. According to doctors, the only therapy that could save him was a kidney transplant, and the best donor would be Tommy's brother Jerry, 27. But Jerry, though he idolizes Tommy, is confined to a state mental hospital. Even if he had fully understood the crisis, Jerry was mentally incompetent to authorize surgery on himself...
...followed Serra to California were lusty freebooters (Puritans, for some reason, had little zest for ?l Dorado). The trait they shared was an ability to build what Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. approvingly called "a special brand of democracy, one based on the notion that the best good of all was served by everyone looking out for himself...
...amount it spends for the education of its children, and tolerates a second-rate public school system. In addition, a political crisis threatens the nine campuses of the University of California. One of the greatest public education facilities in the land, it boasts, among other things, some of the best science faculties?including 14 Nobel laureates?of any university anywhere...
Craft and the Machine. Some admirers of the period value its creations for their sentimental value and assemble Mickey Mouse watches or Coca-Cola trays. More discerning buyers search for pieces of intrinsically good design. At its best, the style marks the first concentrated attempt to come to grips with the aesthetic challenges of the machine...