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Today's preferred areas of study are business, engineering, computers and health professions. At Northwestern University, English majors declined by 50% from 1964 to 1982. This year's class at the University of Texas at Austin has 1,993 business majors, compared with only 1,217 for all the liberal arts. Says Kent Johnson, an agricultural economics major at Texas A & M: "You have to look at what kind of return you're going to get for your investment. You can't be a music major. It won't pay the bills." Concludes Gary Margolis...
...ballet dancer, and he began looking in the direction of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly rather than Nijinsky. When he saw a local production of The King and I, he narrowed his sights still further-to Broadway. He studied drama at the University of Texas at Austin and after graduating in 1961 turned north toward Times Square. He missed out on several parts because of his height, but finally got into the chorus of Irma La Douce. Some of the other shows he was in, Baker Street and A Joyful Noise, were less successful, but Tune remembers those days...
...Texas law professor hired by Nixon as consultant in tapes case. His contention that executive privilege protected tapes was rejected by Supreme Court, 8 to 0. Paid $150 a day by White House, now gets more than $150 an hour for consulting work. Still teaches constitutional law at Austin campus...
...name of Steven Weinberg invariably comes up when this question is raised. Weinberg, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, left Harvard last year for a reported six-figure salary at the University of Texas at Austin. "Steven Weinberg wanted to stay here," Rosovsky says. "He left because of his wife," who joined the faculty of the University of Texas law school. Weinberg himself has an unlisted telephone number and was unavailable for comment...
Jennifer Mattingly Austin, Texas...