Word: stanford
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...Senate Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, chaired by Sea. John L. McClellen (D-Ark.), also served a subpoena yesterday to the Stanford Dean of Students. The subcommittee requested the records of 90 individuals and 12 national campus organizations at Stanford...
Elder declined to comment last night on the specifics of the subpoena. The Stanford subpoena, however, requested information on any Federal aid being received by the students listed and the names of the officers of the campus chapters of those organizations...
...Stanford Provost Richard W. Lyman said in a statement yesterday afternoon, "It is important that we avoid precipitous reaction and make every effort to curb the rumors which are bound to occur. Apparently, none of the individuals have been subpoenaed, and so far as we can tell, the information requested is of a limited nature...
...Petersburg industrialist also ruined by the revolution. In 1934 they had a son, Dmitri, an only child now studying opera in Italy. In 1939, having moved from Berlin to Paris to avoid the Nazis, Nabokov quite by chance received and accepted a proposal to lecture on Slavic languages at Stanford...
...First at Stanford, then for seven years as a part-time lecturer in the Russian language at Wellesley, with side jobs as a lepidopterist in Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology (plus a few more tennis lessons), and finally as a professor at Cornell from 1948 to 1958, Nabokov studied America, as a colleague at Cornell puts it, like someone "in Madagascar observing the natives." In 1945 he became an American citizen. They occupied a succession of rented houses?more or less bivouacked in the quarters of a different absentee professor each year ?partly for lack of cash, partly...