Word: stanford
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DAVID J. GAINES Stanford, Calif...
...Stanford, Calif...
...activities of Mussolini's legions in Ethiopia. After World War II service as OWI foreign-lan-guage chief, Cranston became a staunch world federalist, then helped found the liberal California Democratic Council. In 1958 he became California's first Democratic Controller in 72 years. A former Stanford track star, Cranston, 54, easily ran past his Republican opponent, the state's fustian Superintendent of Public Instruction, Max Rafferty...
Bailed Out by Caltech. Stanford officials expect to lose $7 million from the school's total research budget of $46.1 million, which means that the university will operate at least $700,000 in the red this year. Assistant Dean Richard Leahy of Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences predicts that some graduate students will have to drop out because of a 25% cut in research support. Harvard's Graduate School of Education may have to abandon a promising study of how preschool children develop. Caltech will have to provide at least...
Riesman, who this year is a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford said that "the United States through most of its history has been a profoundly conservative country." The conservative majority is usually apathetic in national politics, he wrote, but when "presented... with definitions of American life sharply at odds with their own," conservatives undertake "symbolic crusades to extirpate the strange and the stranger and to set the country back on the right track...