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...other responsibilities included serving as vice-chairman of the State Department's Board of Foreign Scholarships from 1956 to 1969 president of the New England Conference of Graduate Education from 1947 to 1958; and a trustee of Barnard College the Buckingham School in Cambridge and the Alice Freeman Palmer Institute in Sedalian...
...police searched for the child's parents, outrage mounted over the classification policy. Racial typing, declared the Rand Daily Mail, was "the cause of more human agony than any other of the South African statutes." Dr. Marius Barnard, a member of the opposition Progressive Federal Party and brother of Heart Surgeon Dr. Christiaan Barnard, urged the government to classify Lize as white. Said he: "It is the innocent who suffer in these matters." At week's end no one had yet decided whether Lize would go through life enjoying the privileges of white society or be a second...
...York Governor Mario Cuomo at Barnard College in New York City: "The liberation of women from the stereotypes and narrow possibilities that have bound their lives is one of the great movements of this century or of any other, an expansion of the concept of our human dignity and of our worth. One-half of the human race is waking to claim its birthright. The full participation of women in our national life-in our courts, capitols, boardrooms, precinct houses, theaters and universities-will flood this country with new energy and imagination and genius...
...sure, infinitesimally small. As it hurtles through the interstellar void, Pioneer will not approach another star for 10,000 earth years. Even then, it will hardly be a close encounter: there will be a gulf of 3.8 light-years (some 23 trillion miles) between Pioneer and Barnard's star, a small, cool, red celestial object that does not seem to have life-supporting planets. Still, as scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center note, Pioneer should survive indefinitely in the vacuum of interstellar space. The machine may even outlast the solar system itself, which is expected to expire...
...least "one hundred more people voted because of them," Mary Bergan, vice president of Barnard's student government, said yesterday. Bergan said 657 of the 2500 students at the college voted in the election...