Word: holton
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Particles was produced by Robert G. Gardner '48, director of the Film Study Center in the Peabody Museum, and Gerald Holton, professor of Physics. It will be shown at 3:30 p.m. on Monday, free to the film-loving public...
Outside the Deep South, the trend among Republican candidates has been toward moderation on civil rights. Governors Spiro Agnew of Maryland and Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas won office even though their Democratic opponents "outsegged" them; in Virginia's 1965 gubernatorial race, moderate Republican Linwood Holton lost to Democrat Mills Godwin, a hardline white supremacist who shifted his stance to court Negro votes. Last week the move toward moderation manifested itself for the first time in that bastion of the white South, Mississippi...
...Ramar Holton will be another newcomer. Holton played number one as a freshman four years ago, but since then he has been out. He was sidelined last year with a broken wrist. Holton put in some practice in Miami over the semester break and should be ready for Navy in the squad's first match a week from Sunday...
...Holton could be one of the few who will be ready. Ten golfers will travel to South Carolina for a week's practice, but that won't be enough against the Middies, who are usually the Crimson's toughest opponent...
There is a tone of idealism and engagement that emerges from Holton's approach to his field and its teaching. In person, he manages to hide it behind a convincing skepticism toward anything about himself, but the cynicism does not run deep. "Everyone would occasionally like to retreat into his research for two or three years," Holton reflects. "But a university appointment is a great place from which to get involved. A scientist's life here can be almost kalaidoscopic. It doesn't have to be, but the bounds of human experience can be very wide...