Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member committee, chaired by Karl Strauch, professor of Physics, has set next February as the target for the release of its final report. Although no specific recommendations have yet been formulated, informed sources say a majority of the committee now favors sex-blind admissions coordinated through one office and an increase of about 10 per cent in the size of the undergraduate student body. About three quarters of the committee have indicated their preference for these alternatives in straw votes taken at weekly committee meetings, the sources said...
...Youth when the Nazis came to power in 1933 and later served as an artillery battery commander in the Wehrmacht during World War II until he was captured by the British. After the war, he studied economics at the University of Hamurg, where he was a star pupil of Karl Schiller, who later served as Brandt's first Finance Minister. Schmidt entered politics while still a student and became leader of the German Socialist Student Union, precursor of today's vociferous, left-wing Young Socialists (Jusos). He won a seat in the Bundestag on the Social Democratic ticket...
...mail and restrict the flow of supposedly radical reading material into institutions. As an example of the kind of material he would keep out of prisons, Sergeant William Hankins of San Quentin cites the books found in George Jackson's cell after his death, notably Das Kapital by Karl Marx and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Other prison officials place the blame for radical attitudes largely on outsiders, who, they claim, reach the inmates through lawyers or cultural groups...
...Died. Karl Friedrich Meyer, 89, Swiss-American virologist-bacteriolo-gist-epidemiologist; of cancer; in San Francisco. Meyer spent more than 60 years studying a wide range of diseases, including botulism, encephalitis, plague and a host of more arcane maladies. Trained as a veterinarian, he devoted much of his research to the transmittal of animal diseases to man. While investigating psittacosis (parrot fever) in 1935, he contracted the illness and nearly died. Years later he arrested that deadly bane of budgie lovers by treating bird seed with antibiotics...
Midget football had one big advantage over schoolboy sports--no limitations on practice. Asher's boys had playbooks that would have broken Karl Sweetan's foot if he had dropped one. They began practice in midsummer and by the time the season was over in December had combed the country from Miami to Levittown to Chicago looking for a team that could play with them...