Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford, on the recommendation of a trustee committee headed by John W. Gardner, the board of trustees unanimously decided to seek broader viewpoints by filling two current vacancies in its ranks with faculty members from other universities. The trustees also approved a nine-man expansion of the 23-member board, including four Stanford graduates aged 35 or under, and agreed to give students and faculty voting membership on most trustee committees. If Stanford gains court approval for the required change in its founding grant, the first election of new board members will be held this year...
...Braille. Similarly, she can read typed letters from friends and current novels or textbooks not yet transcribed into Braille, as well as newspapers and magazines - all previously inaccessible to the blind. The machine, now being perfected by Electrical Engineer John G. Linvill and a team of researchers at Stanford University and Stanford Research Institute, electronically transforms a printed letter into one that can be felt...
...probe-pin design came from a high-speed computer that printed its answers with electrically charged pins instead of solid typeface. When he found that the blind could be taught to recognize vibrating patterns, he built the first model of his machine. Next, he and two other researchers at Stanford, James D. Meindl and James C. Bliss, made the probe sensitive to the differences in such similar-shaped letters as lower case a, e, and o, and also adjustable for various print sizes. The portable, battery-operated machine was then given to Candy for testing at home...
...cash equally among the citizenry, and building a much-discussed new state capitol beside the Mendenhall Glacier near Juneau. More soberly, the Legislative Council has commissioned The Brookings Institution to recommend how best to invest the interest that the money will earn, and Governor Miller has asked the Stanford Research Institute to undertake a similar study. Beyond that, Alaska has another 800,000 acres to put up for bids whenever it wishes, and will collect 90% of the royalties from any oil produced on federal land within the state...
...Goldstein, professor of law at Yale, is among those who believe that Dinis should have brought the case before a grand jury, which would have conducted its hearings in secret. "The whole investigative process could be pursued more reasonably with a grand jury." says Goldstein. Professor Herbert Packer of Stanford's law school disapproves altogether of Dinis' handling of the case. "It's just one incompetence after another," he says. "What Dinis has assured himself of is maximum publicity, which is what I suspect he wanted...