Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...innocence, Hayes and others often point to studies of workers at the Montrose Chemical Corp., the world's largest DDT producer, and federal prisoners who voluntarily accepted daily doses of DDT in Atlanta. In both cases, they say, there was no damage. But other scientists, including Stanford Molecular Biologist Joshua Lederberg, a Nobel laureate, explain that far too little is known about how DDT reacts with other body chemicals to acquit the pesticide so readily...
...Order and Chaos. "Elizabethan is a foreign language to them," says Epis copal Priest Walter Smith of Atlanta, speaking of couples who want to re write the service in their own phrase ology. Dr. B. Davie Napier, dean of the chapel at Stanford University, ad mits that he has become "increasingly uneasy with a ceremony that doesn't speak to us now." In one recent wedding ceremony performed by Dean Napier, the bridegroom vowed to take his wife "for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, in war and in peace, in order...
While scientists have often speculated about this universal speed, they have never been able to record or measure it. For one thing, they lacked a suitable frame of reference in which they could clock the earth's speed through the universe as a whole. Now, a young Stanford University astronomer has made such a computation by using a phenomenon so distant in origin that it can be considered at the very outer limits of the cosmos. He calculates that along with the rest of the Milky Way galaxy, the earth is hurtling through space at 360,000 m.p.h...
...Thursday Afternoon Lecture Series--Stanford Anderson, "The Carpenter Center: Transformation of LeCorbusier's 'Maison Domino';" Emerson Hall 105, No admission charge...
Steve Knaebel, 28, Stanford, was a Peace Corpsman in Venezuela, then returned to Stanford for his M.B.A. Now he will combine his business skills and social concerns as an executive of the International Basic Economy Corp., which finances development projects in poorer nations. Knaebel said: "It's the old question: do you want revolution, or do you want to go to work and try to develop resources and improve the world? I think that people today have rejected the New Left view that the system is rotten. They want to get in the system and do something about...