Word: mellons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Faculty selection committee of the Harvard Mellon Foundation Fellowships this week announced the names of the 14 recipients of the scholarship for the next academic year...
...Harvard Mellon Fellowships, which aware $13,000 to each recipient, are granted to non-tenured faculty members of other colleges and universities who hold Ph.D. degrees and have had at least two years of post-doctoral teaching experience...
...fellowship is the Mellon Foundation's way of supporting the humanities when the job market is tight," Hunt added. "It allows winners to return to their positions with better prospects for tenure...
...situation leads to disrespect for court orders and some spectacular snatches. After Pittsburgh Millionaire Seward Prosser Mellon and Wife Karen were divorced in 1974, a Pennsylvania court awarded custody of their two girls to Mellon. During a visit, however, their mother took the children to New York and later gained legal custody in a court there. Two years ago, three men employed by Mellon seized the two girls as they were on their way to a Brooklyn school, and the millionaire still has them...
Other scientists too are apprehensive. D. Raj Reddy, a computer scientist at Pittsburgh's Carnegie-Mellon University, fears that universally available microcomputers could turn into formidable weapons. Among other things, says Reddy, sophisticated computers in the wrong hands could begin subverting a society by tampering with people's relationships with their own computers?instructing the other computers to cut off telephone, bank and other services, for example. The danger lies in the fast-expanding computer data banks, with their concentration of information about people and governments, and in the possibility of access to those repositories. Already, computer theft...