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...hand, the announcement that the "best of the small presses" has been gathered in one volume poses some problems. Pushcart Editor and Publisher Bill Henderson writes that the 52 winners were chosen from more than 4,000 submissions by 2,000 presses, ranging from Abaxas (Madison, Wis.) to Zuezda (Berkeley, Calif.). Since no one person could comfortably read, much less intelligently compare, this avalanche of material, Henderson called on "the assistance of 147 staff and special contributing editors for this edition." Any anthology designed by so large a committee is bound to look more like a camel than a horse...
...years ago, there were only four medical centers in the U.S. where teams of scientists were actively engaged in developing PET. Today there are about ten, including Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Washington University in St. Louis, the University of California in Los Angeles and Donner Laboratory at Berkeley. There should be at least 15 different centers involved in PET scanning by 1983. By then Europe will have more than a dozen centers with PET equipment and Japan possibly ten. Says Wolf: "The field is just beginning to take off." -By Anastasia Toufexis
...area house costs about $325,000 (vs. $144,000 around New York City). Stanford President Donald Kennedy admits that professors are rejecting jobs there because of housing costs. Says University of California Faculty Housing Coordinator Afton Crooks: "Our recruitment and retainment have been seriously affected. They come out to Berkeley or to the other campuses, price homes and tell...
DIED. William Dean, 82, no-nonsense Army major general who survived three years in prisoner-of-war camps during the Korean War; in Berkeley, Calif. Dean was separated from troops of his 24th Infantry Division in 1950. After eluding Communist patrols for 30 days, he was captured but resisted all efforts by the enemy to extract military information from him. Dean won the Medal of Honor but said: "I'm just a dog-faced soldier...
Hotel rooms have always been havens for thieves, as Actress Jaclyn Smith, former star of the Charlie's Angels television show, found out earlier this month when a crook slipped into her suite at London's Berkeley Hotel and made off with rings, bracelets and a necklace worth about...