Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rockefeller Fellowship then lured Kistiakowsky to Princeton, where he said he spent five years in which he learned most of his chemistry. In 1930, James Bryant Conant was chairman of the Chemistry department and personally persuaded Kistiakowsky to switch to Harvard as an assistant professor. His friends say that Kistiakowsky came only under the condition that he would be told after a set number of years whether he would get promoted-a system which did not become standard University practice until Conant became President. Kistiakowsky himself refuses to elaborate on why he came to Harvard, except to say that Conant...
Bill Friedman, now in our New York bureau, had an economics fellowship at the University of Paris when he took a part-time secretarial job with the Los Angeles Times's Paris office. This led to stringer work for the Times and then for TIME. After Army service he joined our Montreal bureau. Frank Merrick, now in Chicago, succumbed early-after his first summer job as a siren-chasing cub reporter for the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram. In 1968, while reporting for seven New England papers, Merrick became a TIME stringer in New Hampshire. "I got to cover...
REMEMBER the college graduate of 1968? Standing there on commencement day with diploma in one hand and a bundle of job offers in the other? Seniors that June scarcely had to look for work. Their main problem seemed to be deciding which corporation offered the best opportunities, or which fellowship led to the most promising future...
After graduation, Shapiro used a fellowship to study Greek tragedy and English literature at Cambridge University's Clare College. He continued to see a psychiatrist. The English atmosphere, he says, was "like a garden of recuperation, especially when kids I knew back home were blowing themselves up." One of those friends was Ted Gold, a Columbia radical turned Weatherman who was killed in the explosion of a Greenwich Village "bomb factory" last year. When Shapiro talks about Gold, he stutters...
...delegates arrived with disruption in mind. Many sported crew cuts; one wore a T shirt from the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. Many were nominated by Governors, party youth groups and organizations ranging from the Boy Scouts to the Sierra Club. One girl from San Francisco was a veteran demonstrator: she had organized a pro-Nixon rally during last spring's nationwide protests against Administration policies. When a rock band deafened the proceedings, the kids promptly began dancing in 1950s style, cheek to cheek...