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...Robert Scalapino, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, suspects that a deep-seated need for stability on the part of most Chinese will induce the next generation of leaders to opt for a system of political authoritarianism but social and economic pluralism. Says he: "Even the intellectuals remember the chaos of the Cultural Revolution and the warlord period, and they don't want to go back...
...short, says Douglas Scalapino, of the University of California at Santa Barbara, recent developments are something like the breaking of the four- minute mile. Beforehand, it had been considered nearly impossible; afterward, "you could go to any track meet and some guy was breaking it." The activity, says Cava, "is more exciting than a supernova. Astrophysicists can watch it, but when it happens, it happens and it's gone. In superconductivity, the events are still going on, and the physics is just beginning to pour...
Another registered Democrat, Robert Scalapino, professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley and a White House defense adviser, concurs with his fellow converts. "I regard McGovern as an honorable man." Scalapino admits, "but he's the most incredibly naive man to run for the presidency in the 20th century...
...center is housed in some-what seedy off-campus offices, its 18,000-volume library is outstanding. One seasoned specialist is John Stewart Service, a State Department officer purged in 1951, who testified two weeks ago before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (TIME, Aug. 2). Political Scientist Robert A. Scalapino, who advocated U.S. diplomatic recognition of China twelve years ago, has nevertheless become anathema to many younger scholars for supporting U.S. involvement in Viet Nam during the Johnson Administration. At the opposite pole is H. Franz Schurmann, a sociologist and historian, probably the most respected of the experts...
Underwritten by a grant from TIME, the tour will bring together panels of such leading foreign-affairs experts as Political Scientist Robert Scalapino, Teodoro Moscoso, former coordinator of the Alliance for Progress, and Wayne Fredericks of the Ford Foundation. At every stop, public discussions will be held under the sponsorship of local World Affairs Councils and universities. Starting this week in Los Angeles, the jet-borne conference will visit San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Houston, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Chicago and Dallas. The meetings are meant for community participation; those who wish to attend should call their local World...