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...Brown's 5,119 undergraduates remained in class, while others marched outside buildings with signs saying CUT CLASS, NOT FACULTY and organized workshops on subjects ranging from "sexism awareness" to "prison reform." The faculty did not take a stand, and most teachers showed up for class. Robley K. Matthews, chairman of the geology department, urged his professors to deliver their regular lectures even if not a single student was in the room; he also advised them to make sure that topics covered in last week's lectures would "figure heavily in the final examination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Walkout at Brown | 4/28/1975 | See Source »

Married. Tommy Smothers, 37, dummy half of the brotherly comedy act; and Rochelle Robley, 37, his high school sweetheart; he for the second time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 29, 1974 | 7/29/1974 | See Source »

Yale University, however, which abolished its foreign language requirement four years ago, has not experienced the same results. Grant Robley, the Yale registrar, says that the average enrollment in language classes has since decreased only slightly, and that there has been no great cut in the number of teaching personnel...

Author: By Daniel H. Maccoby, | Title: The Foreign Language Requirement | 11/19/1971 | See Source »

...Closer Look. Thus viruses got defined and classified. But just how the virus core gets into a cell remained a mystery, even after Dr. Robley C. Williams, a member of Stanley's California team, devised the method of plating the particles with gold or uranium to get clearer electron micrographs. Then, two years ago at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, Drs. Sydney Brenner and Robert W. Home made an illuminating refinement on electron micrography, revealing far more intimate details of virus structures and differences, and clues to how viruses work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Ultimate Parasite | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

Seven Times Safety. The salesman drank three cases, generously let his sister have the fourth case. He would have taken more, but fortunately for him-and others-the Radithor outfit went out of business. Recently, responding to M.I.T.'s invitation, he presented himself for a checkup. Dr. Robley Dunglison Evans, 51, had him breathe into a glass flask, to test for radon gas in his breath, and into a mask hooked up to another flask to test for another gas, thoron, that has a half life of only 54 seconds. An ultra-sensitive scintillation counter scanned his whole body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Radium Hangovers | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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