Word: stanford
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chandler has approached both work and play with that same drive to prove himself. A big-game hunter who says his sport has taken him to "all the high mountains of the world," Chandler is also a motorcycle enthusiast, weight lifter and former Stanford University shotputter who made the Olympic team in 1952. Tall, tanned and blond, Chandler describes himself as "the world's oldest surfer" and regales visitors with tales of riding 12-ft. waves. He owns a $4 million fleet of competition cars and antique autos and is, along with Friend Paul Newman, one of the oldest...
DAVID RIESMAN, sociologist: Richard Lyman of Stanford University is one of the few college presidents who is a real leader. He had the courage to fire a radical professor at the cost of dividing his faculty. Dan Evans was an inventive Governor of Washington. He developed an independent VISTA program. Terry Sanford [former Governor of North Carolina] is really a great leader. He developed projects for multiracial groups that influenced the educational programs of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society...
...busy group intellectuals known as neoconservatives. Steinfels, who is the executive editor of the Catholic biweekly Commonweal, does not see a neoconservative under every bed. He names only a dozen or so, including Sociologists Nathan Glazer and James Q. Wilson of Harvard and Seymour Martin Lipset of Stanford. But the book centers on three thinkers: Editor Irving Kristol, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Daniel Bell, author of The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism. All are associated with The Public Interest and Commentary. Most are professors, including Moymhan, who, Steinfels devastatingly demonstrates, is also an ambitious presidential candidate and an Irish politican...
Zurcher vs. Stanford Daily (1978). With a warrant, police can make a surprise raid on a newsroom to search for evidence of crime committed by others...
...high bench are Rehnquist on the right and William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall on the left. Brennan, often a dissenter in the past, found himself in the majority in several key cases this year, and he wrote the majority opinion in the Weber case. That is an indication, says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther, of a less conservative tilt to the court. Isolated on the right with Rehnquist is Burger. Unlike his predecessor, Earl Warren, the Chief Justice has not molded any kind of consensus on the court. In that sense, the high bench is not only not the "Nixon...