Word: stoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Southern University system President JESSE STONE at Southern University in Shreveport, La.: "In our efforts to open up new vistas of learning for our youngsters, we made certain assumptions that have not been proven. One was that, in direct competition with white students, black students would work harder. That did not turn out to be the case. Another assumption was that blacks and whites would learn positive things from each other and, as a result, take each other more seriously. The fact is, under integration, too many whites still find no value in black culture except music, the ability...
...even greater menace is the Brazilian pepper, or Schinus terebinthifolius. While visiting Brazil in 1926, Physician and Plant Lover George Stone was attracted by its thick clusters of red berries and brought back seeds for his garden in Punta Gorda, on Florida's southwest Gulf coast. The tree proliferated with the aid of casual gardeners, landscapers and birds (which feasted on the berries and spread seeds across the peninsula...
...archaeologists, tiny Easter Island, located in the Pacific more than 2,000 miles west of mainland Chile, is a treasure. Its giant brooding stone figures, fashioned centuries ago, look stoically out to sea, their purpose an age-old mystery. For the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, there is a different attraction: NASA would like to use Easter Island as a possible emergency landing site for the space shuttle. Under a plan proposed to Chile, which owns the 45.5-sq.-mi. speck, NASA would spend an estimated $11 million to lengthen the 8,500-ft. local runway by about half...
Nine-year Corporation veteran Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, chairman and chief executive officer of Houston based Kirby Exploration Co., an oil and gas producer, is a director of Corning Glass Works in Corning. N.Y., a broad-based electronics manufacturer with 30,500 employees and revenues last year of $1.59 billion. According to the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington, Corning maintains investments in South Africa. Further information on the company's investments there was not available last week...
Also on the Corning board with Stone are Francis H. Burr '35, who sat on the Corporation for 28 years until 1982, and Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky, the former dean of the Faculty...