Word: researched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dogherty '59, deemed the lack of publicity as the greatest problem of the kitchen authorities. Dogherty suggested hiring a full-time public relations director, but this suggestion, although aimed in the right direction, has definite drawbacks. The wages paid another official in the hierarchy might better be spent in research or in sauces for the turkey...
...Palo Alto, scholars are given a private study, meeting rooms, a dining room, and use of the Stanford University library. In addition, secretarial and research assistance are provided. Special arrangements are made to facilitate work on projects...
Professor Guber was in the United States last October to attend a meeting of the Bureau of the International Committee of Historians, and was invited by William L. Langer '15, director of the Russian Research Center, to give a talk on the study of history in the Soviet Union. He spent two days in Cambridge at the time and was shown around the University by members of the Center...
About Richard E. Pipes, a research fellow at the Center, Guber was more controversial. Speaking of Pipes' book, Formation of the Soviet Union; Communism and Nationalism, Guber said, it is "founded on a large group of sources and literature; however, the interpretation by Professor Pipes of the most important stages of U.S.S.R. history was exposed by Soviet historians to decisive and fair criticism in the press, and even in meetings with the author in Moscow...
John Letcher of Lexington, Va. had no trouble deciding where to spend his scholarship money. He is headed for Caltech (three of the other four top winners also want to study there), hopes to work after graduation in nuclear physics or rocket research. He knows an impressive amount already about both subjects. At the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tenn., where he built the accelerator, he and a research team of schoolboy scientists hope this summer to fire off a stratospheric rocket with a 20-lb. instrument payload. The first-prize winner also plays chess, wrestles on the varsity team...