Word: berkeley
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...read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library...
...Even basketball seems to be played with unusual seriousness." The dropout rate has plummeted; this year less than 10% of Hurst's students failed to complete each semester. Members of last year's graduating class were accepted at colleges from the University of Illinois to Howard to Berkeley; all 115 graduates of the various nursing programs have jobs. Meanwhile the trustees voted to erect a modern, block-long $26 million building into which the college moved last spring...
...describes the evolution of New Buffalo, between Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico, which painfully expelled the hordes of parasitic potheads who had drifted in to live off the efforts of a hard-working minority. A different proposition is Harrad West,* a six-member group-marriage web in Berkeley, Calif. Houriet, who notes regretfully that he missed its "honeymoon" phase, found unsettling resemblances to an erotic soap opera. One feature was "the Chart," which ordained who was to sleep with whom on any particular night. "There's really no other way to do it if you have...
...UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY concentrates on the social sciences at its Center for Chinese Studies. Chalmers Johnson, the center's chief, regularly reports on the Chinese and Japanese press over National Educational Television. Though the center is housed in some-what seedy off-campus offices, its 18,000-volume library is outstanding. One seasoned specialist is John Stewart Service, a State Department officer purged in 1951, who testified two weeks ago before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (TIME, Aug. 2). Political Scientist Robert A. Scalapino, who advocated U.S. diplomatic recognition of China twelve years ago, has nevertheless become...
...between dismissal and reinstatement, Service worked for an engineering firm in New York City and devised improvements in steam traps for radiators. After retiring, he went to the University of California for an M.A. in political science, then settled in at U.C.'s Center for Chinese Studies at Berkeley. Its press has just published his Amerasia Papers: Some Problems in the History of U.S.-China Relations, which fully records his early talks with...