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Nicolaas Bloembergen, Rumford Professor of Physics and chairman of the CRR, said yesterday Faculty members believe the appeals board idea is "too legalistic...
What do Dixon, Boise, Saint Johns, Mission, Westminster, Shirkieville, Floresville and Clio have in common? If, understandably, the light does not dawn, try this: Laurinburg, Walters, Rumford, Mitchell, Everett, Doland and Pocantico Hills. In case the riddle is still not solved, two more names should give it away: Plains and Grand Rapids...
Nicolaas Bloembergen, Rumford Professor of Physics, last month received the National Medal of Science for "high standards of scientific achievement...
...found near the City Hospital on Mt. Auburn St., an inconspicuous tablet that reads: "ON THIS SPOT IN THE YEAR 1000 LEIF ERICKSON BUILT HIS HOUSE IN VINELAND." The stone was placed on the left bank of the Charles in the 1880s by Eben Norton Horsford, then Rumford Professor of History Emeritus. His painstaking research led him to believe that the Northmen were familiar with Boston Harbor and the Charles, and that Cambridge was Vineland itself...
...boyhood was somewhat straitened, it was not particularly deprived or, as some biographers claim, deeply clouded by bigotries against "Polacks." Muskie took some heckling as a Polish child in predominantly French-Canadian Rumford, but it was nothing traumatic. Like the Muskies, the other townspeople were largely Roman Catholic. Muskie was an earnest student, and was popular enough in high school to become president of the student council. He joined the debating squad and the basketball team-as a substitute. At Maine's Bates College, working his way through. Muskie was elected class president and graduated cum hiudc. His grades were...