Word: probe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unrest posed new problems for the university. Jesse Unruh, speaker of the California assembly, said that the legislature's Joint Committee on Higher Education will probe Berkeley's problems. Governor-elect Ronald Reagan repeated his campaign call for a Berkeley investigation, said the new disorder was caused by "middleaged delinquents." As Governor he will have few official powers over the university beyond sitting on its board of regents, although he can influence its budget. His guideline will be that "no one is compelled to attend the university. Those who do attend should accept and obey the prescribed rules...
...began to probe the matter, he discovered other information to support his theory. "The Russians have conducted very interesting experiments with dogs. For instance, they trained an animal to expect bread at the sound of a bell, but meat if a light were flashed instead. After a while, when both signals were employed at the same time, the animal invariably went for the bread, even though as a rule dogs prefer meat...
This month, San Francisco's slick Ramparts magazine, a onetime Catholic quarterly turned New Left monthly, also carried several of the Jones reports, along with the outcome of what the magazine breathlessly describes as an eight-month probe by "a team of Ramparts editors, aided by researchers and trained investigators," who "traveled to Dallas a dozen times and interviewed nearly 100 people throughout the country knowledgeable about the assassination." Oddly enough, a majority of the people most closely involved in the incidents reported in the Ramparts article never heard of the magazine or its "team." Thus...
...Ervin Jr. of North Carolina, the widespread use of such tests to probe federal job applicants is reminiscent of witchcraft: "Does the flesh of the applicant burn when a hot iron is applied to it? Heaven help us if we are reduced to alchemy as a technique of screening applicants for highly sensitive positions in the federal bureaucracy...
Franchise Sagan is a Gallic Maugham who knows instinctively how deep to probe, what not to say, and when to quit. Her swift vignettes, like Maugham's, are the product of a far more complex and searching intelligence than cold type exposes, and her novels are like fragile sand dollars-elegant, delicate designs...