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...them. At best we can ask the right questions." This kind of informed insight was invaluable to the teachers. Said a white professor from Laney College in Oakland: "In seven years of collegiate and university training, this is the first time I ever had any instructor lay it on the line...
Some of the teachers were apprehensive about entering the summer institute: one woman instructor asked Towbis if he could guarantee her safe conduct for the month; another teacher updated his will before leaving home in Tennessee and took out a $37,000 life-insurance policy. Towbis, who is working for a doctorate in education at Berkeley, brushed aside their fears. He insisted on the need for daily immersion in slum areas to "understand the kids' background from working in the ghetto instead of out of sociology books...
...versatile Braden, 51, is a former Dartmouth English instructor, wartime OSS and CIA official, and owner of the Oceanside (Calif.) Blade-Tribune (which he purchased in 1954 with the help of a $100,000 loan from Nelson Rockefeller and sold profitably last year). A Kennedy liberal, Braden headed California's board of education, a post in which he clashed often with Max Rafferty, the reactionary state superintendent. This journalistic odd couple-Braden is tall, wiry and intense, Mankiewicz is short, round-faced and bemused -launched their project in the belief that most columns "are lousy" and fail to express...
...added, however, that a number of individuals, including Lance C. Buhl, instructor in History, had discussed he proposal with Air Force officials
...took a long time to get our visas from Cuba. Permission finally came through last August, and Art MacEwan [instructor in Economics] did go then. I decided to wait in order to do a little more preparatory work and so that I would be able to stay longer...