Word: berkeley
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...unusual; many graduate students now spend several years applying unsuccessfully for jobs while they try to complete their dissertations. Take, for example, the case of Thomas Kaiser, a history graduate student who has applied in the last two years to 60 places-- "everywhere from major universities like Yale and Berkeley down to some rather small schools." What's discouraging, Kaiser says, is that "the prospects have become so poor for so many people who are so very good...
Simon Guendelman Wisniak Berkeley, Calif...
Squeaky went with Manson and another girl to Haight-Ashbury, where Manson seemed to be a hero, especially to young women. The first girl was dropped and another, Mary, was picked up in Berkeley. Then the three drove in a 1948 Chevrolet to the little town of Casper, where they found other disaffected flower children and settled in a house in the woods. There Charlie ordered her to "take off your clothes. " Later, after some hesitation on her part, they had sex for the first time...
...city's 666 public schools preventing 530,000 pupils from attending classes. In Pennsylvania, strikes closed 25 of the state's 505 school districts, and teachers walked picket lines in one-third of Rhode Island's school districts. Schools were shut down in Berkeley, Calif., Wilmington, Del., and dozens of other cities. In hundreds of districts, teachers began the school year at work without contracts, awaiting the outcome of bargaining sessions that seemed hopelessly deadlocked. Strikes also loomed in New York City and Boston, where classes were scheduled to begin this week...
Some first-rate private colleges seem bargain-priced: Beloit is $4,595 and Grinnell $4,620. Top-rank public universities cost even less; the University of California at Berkeley is $2,174 for state residents, and the University of Michigan...