Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than they would like to because they need the money. Others cannot refuse a thesis advisor who asks his graduate student to spend "just one more year" as his teaching assistant. And everyone spends a great deal of time working and re-working his thesis because, as Dean Ford suggested, "perhaps we place too much emphasis on the thesis...
With the aid of a $4.4 million grant from the Ford Foundation, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is going to expand its program to award students a Ph.D. in four or five years, depending on the field. For the next three years, one out of every four entering graduate students in the humanities and social sciences will receive a Graduate Prize Fellowship -- a four or five-year grant which commits the student to a well-structured Ph.D. plan. He will be required to complete his oral examination by the end of his second year, and he will...
...disgruntled Corpus Christi, Texas, cop: "It's getting so bad that lawyers practically have to ride around in patrol cars." That's precisely what Frank Carrington and a number of other young lawyers, trained at Northwestern's Law School under a $300,000, five-year Ford Foundation grant, have been doing. "The resolution of conflicts between maximum police efficiency and maximum individual liberty," says the program's codirector, Professor James Thompson, "calls for the application of sound legal counsel not only in the courts, but also in the police precincts, where the average criminal case begins...
Advanced work on electric cars still centers around cheaper, more powerful batteries. General Motors, for example, is continuing work on high-capacity silver-zinc batteries, though they are still inordinately expensive. Ford has designed a sodium-sulphur battery that could drive a Falcon-sized car up to 130 miles at 50 m.p.h. Scientists agree that a production car using a version of either battery is still five to ten years...
...dropped 25% from 1966's record high of 1,476,000 vehicles. Like U.S. automakers, the company has been hit by the safety scare. In the mini-motor field, which its beetles long dominated, VW is getting serious competition from General Motors' Opel and the German Ford. Nordhoff has been fighting the pinch with stepped-up exports and a new, cheaper ($1,121) 41 h.p. Model 1200 that he christened Wirt-schaftskrise Kafer, or "economic crisis beetle." With all that, his successor, Kurt Lotz, 54, will have plenty of problems...