Word: robert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Robert B. Meyner of New Jersey visited Cambridge yesterday with his pretty wife and a prepared speech. Addressing the Harvard Democratic Leadership Forum, he struck at the large measure of abdication of regulatory authority by the so-called big six Federal commissions--FTC, FCC, FPC, FAA, SEC, and ICC. The Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Communications Commission were singled out for particular opprobrium because of the current television quiz show scandals...
World-renowned mountain climber Robert H. Bates '33 will present a color film this evening on the scaling of K-2, Robert A. Page Jr. '60, president of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, announced yesterday. The film will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Union Lower Common Room...
...Robert C. Hunt, born in Egypt of U.S. missionary parents, was assistant commissioner in New York's department of mental hygiene in 1955 when he went to Europe and first saw open hospitals, including Mapperley. Says Dr. Hunt now: "I saw and was converted. It was like scales dropping off my eyes." In 1957 he became director of Hudson River State Hospital on the edge of Poughkeepsie, 80 miles north of New York City. Of its nearly 6,000 patients, only 16% were then in open wards...
...scientific visitors pretty well agreed that Communism's rigid dogmas do not seriously confine Russian scientists. In their laboratories their minds are free, and if they are in an officially favored science, they are almost as free to follow their favorite projects as U.S. scientists are. Said Physicist Robert Erode of the University of California at Berkeley: "People can compartmentalize their minds. The argument that there can be no creative science in a restricted society has not held water." Most U.S. visitors agree that Russian scientists are less restricted by political ideology than by the rigid hierarchies...
...American World Airways Captain Robert Fordyce, a New York-based executive recruiter, takes 20% of the first year's salary of each of the $20,000 executives he places in industry each year...