Word: weinbergers
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...clearly trying to buy its way to a top academic rating. This semester it lured Nobel Physicist Steven Weinberg down South. He left behind a prestigious, endowed chair at Harvard in exchange for a Texas-size salary (reportedly more than $100,000) and a commitment from U.T. officials to hire other top specialists in elementary-particle theory. Says Weinberg, 48: "I'm trying to build up a group of theoretical physicists, and I'm being given the resources to do it." At U.T. he joined Physicist John Wheeler, 70, the distinguished nuclear-fission expert who came to Austin...
...endowment at the University of Texas, surpassed only by Harvard's, generated $128 million in income from oil and gas leases this year alone (according to the state constitution, two-thirds goes annually to U.T. and one-third to Texas A & M). Says Weinberg: "Everyone seems acutely aware of the opportunity this university has of making the same move that Berkeley once made-of becoming an absolutely peerless university." In the mid-'70s oil revenues were sunk into concrete edifices: $32.5 million for a basketball arena, $6.5 million for swimming, $2.5 million for baseball. Last year the university...
...September 30, 9:55 p.m.--A man posing as Stephen Weinberg, Higgins Professor of Physics, was arrested for trespassing in the Lyman Laboratory...
...janitor found the man in an office and asked him for identification. The man produced identification bearing the name Stephen Weinberg. The building manager recognized the man was not Weinberg and called the police...
Several Justices questioned Weinberg's charge that Congress wrote draft legislation in 1948 "in an atmosphere permeated by male chauvinism." Chief Justice Warren Burger asked the lawyer last month. "Since when is it the function of the courts to inquire into atmospheres...