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...South Dakota and Missouri debated ways to make their state governments more efficient. Portland, Ore., talked of saving electricity by eliminating high school football games on Friday nights. Nude bathers in San Diego opposed city fathers' plans to turn a stretch of secluded beach into a public park. Bakersfield, Calif., worried that a proposed atomic power plant might somehow pollute its water supply. The people of Cherokee County in Alabama complained that pesticides sprayed on cotton fields had poisoned thousands of fish, birds, rabbits and squirrels, as well as three cows...
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...Diego State junior describes his getaway activity, he seems to accelerate with the speed of a race car suddenly shifted into high gear. At the A.A.U. relays last May in Fresno, Calif., Williams tied the world record (9.1 sec.) in the 100-yd. dash; five weeks later, in Bakersfield, he became the first runner in 13 years to win both the 100 and the 220 in an A.A.U. championship. Last week in Turin, Italy, he swept past the best of Italian competitors to a first-place finish in the 200-meter race...
...Francisco State University faculty's academic senate has disputed the manner in which the trustees of the 19-campus state university have selected the successor to University President S.I. Hayakawa. Paul F. Romberg, currently president of the state college at Bakersfield, was appointed last Tuesday to succeed Hayakawa, who is stepping down because he considers his mission to restore order to the university finished...
...valves of a vast irrigation network. The lush valley has been drilled, plowed, fertilized, sprayed and pummeled into productivity by a succession of determined refugees from Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas and by a sprinkling of Armenians, Italians and Basques. The people still work the land hard for a living. Bakersfield, a city of 74,000 and the seat of Kern County, is the hub of the lower valley and reflects that habit of work. TIME Correspondent Richard Duncan traveled there recently to take a look at yet another man-made miracle, The King of Glory. His report...