Word: clark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow Robert Gordon Sproul, 66, announced that he would retire as president of the University of California in July 1958, the university's board of regents has scoured the entire nation for a successor. Last week they looked in their own backyard−and picked balding, mild-mannered Clark Kerr, 46, since 1952 the able and popular chancellor of the campus at Berkeley...
...maintain leadership and preparedness, he emphasized, the United States must "turn to conventional weapons" for defense, prepare for "limited warfare," and abandon a popular belief, once advocated by General Mark Clark, that the U.S. should "shoot the works for victory...
...Richardson affair seemed to poison the whole atmosphere of the campus. Lecturer-Author Walter Van Tilburg Clark (The Ox-Bow Incident) resigned in protest; other scholars charged Stout with everything from "favoritism" to "inhuman and capricious treatment," and last spring the American Association of University Professors censured the administration for violation of academic freedom and tenure. By that time, the Nevada legislature had gone out after Stout...
Died. William Clark, 66, tall, wealthy (Clark thread fortune heir), cantankerous former judge on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, who left the bench to serve as a lieutenant colonel in World War II, returned to find his seat filled, sued claiming the G.I. Bill guaranteed him his job (he lost); of a heart attack; in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon. Harvardman ('11) Clark first gained fame in 1930 by ruling that the 18th (prohibition) Amendment was invalid, a decision unanimously reversed by the Supreme Court...
Neuberger replied that DeVoto had willed his ashes be spread along the Lolo Trail in the Clearwater, since he had done so much research there on his edition of The Journals of Lewis and Clark. Off the floor, Neuberger called Dworshak's statement a "personal vendetta against him" rather than a rational discussion of the problem...