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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of California's Radiation Laboratory. Teller was uniquely endowed by his scientific talents, a first-hand familiarity with Middle European tyranny and his deep affection for his adopted U.S. to see what most of his fellow countrymen could not see. Of all the U.S. scientists on campus, in government, in industry, Teller worked hardest and most belligerently to send the warning that the Russians were coming. Looking beyond the obvious dangers of Russian advances in particular fields of military technology, e.g., rocket engines, Teller finds a more worrisome menace in Russia's massive national program of science...
...matter what kind of campus they came from, the experts seemed agreed: all is definitely not well with the U.S. high school. Last week at a conference in Chicago, some of the experts, with unusual bluntness, pointed out a few of the errors...
...eight fraternities, encompassing about 520 boys, are forbidden to hold any parties on or off campus, or to have women or liquor in the houses. These penalties, the harshest in the last four years, were announced in a special decision by the faculty committee...
Power failures put nearly half of the Radcliffe dorms in the dark last night. Briggs, Barnard, Bertram, and four of the off-campus houses suffered complete black-outs at 5:20 and numerous other times during the evening...
...University Professors got ready to censure the university, he was able to declare the move "unjustified and singularly inappropriate." He angered some alumni by refusing to give large subsidies to athletes ("hired gladiators," he called them), but for five years he managed to keep his big (19,000) campus prosperous and happy. As president, Kerr will not only head the university's present eight campuses, but will supervise the building of two more, which the regents approved last week. He will have to make provisions for an expected enrollment of 90,000 by 1970. But more important...