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Bloch and Westheimer were chosen after a canvass of the world's 50 leading biochemical researchers, Wilson noted. Their appointment, will increases the faculty of the Chemistry Department from 24 to 26 and the number of full professors in the Department from seven to nine...
Psychological Weapons. When he turned to techniques, Andrews revived the long-neglected canvass. In selected cities, revenue agents went from house to house asking for evidence that a tax return was filed for the previous year (TIME, Aug. 31). Like most income-tax enforcement techniques, this was a psychological weapon. Andrews was not nearly so interested in the citizens actually questioned by the canvassers as he was in the thousands of others who would hear about the canvass and be stricken with honesty. When the Los Angeles newspapers said that a canvass had begun, 1,200 people showed...
...agreed that none of the schools would be identified in the book, and only four colleges refused a request to participate in the canvass. One of these had a strict regulation against drinking; hence it was afraid that its undergraduates would emulate their professors by seeking the protection of the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering the questionnaires...
...general, the undergraduates drank for social reasons rather than for spite, according to the canvass. It was usually a matter of complying with customs, belonging to a fraternity, or endeavoring to get along better on dates. Only 47 percent of the males drank "to get high," and a mere 17 percent reported that they indulged "to get drunk...
...blood drive will canvass the University's 3,500 employees in addition to soliciting the undergraduates. Out side the College, blood campaigns will go on in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, the Law school, Leslie, Radcliffe, Sargent, and the Episcopal Theological Seminary, Actual blood-letting begins Dec. 7 through 11, in Memorial Hall...