Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schriever's request, the Air Corps sent him on from Wright Field to Stanford University for graduate work, whence he emerged a year later with an essential emblem of the missileman-to-be-a master's degree in mechanical engineering. Already he was looking ahead, piecing together his pictures of the future, systematically qualifying himself to take part...
Dyer's best chance is in the 100-yard freestyle, where his listed time of 49.0 is 0.8 seconds better than that of any other entrant. Robin Moore of Stanford, the world record-holder at 48.9, was injured in football this fall and wil not compete. Olympic 100-meter freestyler Dick Hanley of Michigan (49.8), Don Patterson (50.0) of Michigan State, and the Yale trio of Roger Anderson (50.1), Dave Armstrong (50.1), and Rex Aubrey (50.2) will offer the chief opposition...
...William K. Whiteford, 56, president of Gulf Oil Corp., officially becomes chief executive officer with the retirement of Sidney A. Swensrud, 56, as chairman of the board, a post that will be discontinued. Burly, aggressive Bill Whiteford, who started as an oilfield roughneck out of Stanford University, was brought into Gulf in 1951 from the presidency of Canada's British American Oil Co., Ltd., made chief administrative officer in 1953 under Swensrud, who moved up from president to board chairman. Whiteford shook up Gulf's management, strengthened its domestic and Western Hemisphere holdings, firmly but unofficially took over...
Dartmouth's recently announced change to a threeterm system should prove conclusive to providing fuller education for Dartmouth undergraduates. This system has proved successful at Stanford and other American Universities. Any plan decreasing the number of simultaneous courses and therefore furthering more concentrated study is highly desirable...
...value because of its usefulness in other fields. It is of value and interest by itself, as its use as a drawing-card by the Summer Session points out. Last week Time Magazine reported that the most popular and highly regarded general education course for graduate students at Stanford was "Geography and Contemporary World Problems...