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...chafes at the "we happy few" exclusiveness and smugness of the Cambridge community, and finds himself so exasperated that at times he is hoping that Berkeley will surpass Harvard "in the contest for top place on the academic prestige-scale...
Bandel Bezzerides, 20, a straight-A physics major at the University of California at Berkeley and the No. 1 student in a class of 2,352, says he "didn't work too hard for those grades, really." Son of unlettered. Greek immigrant parents, he grew up in Stockton, where his father ran a wholesale produce house. Winning a state scholarship, he startled Berkeley professors with his "knack for understanding something very complex almost immediately, almost offhandedly.'' Though he says that he ''likes people," he shunned all organized campus activity (including last week's commencement...
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY...
...medias res. If the button-down, scrubbed-looking, youthful Kingston Trio (TIME, July 11) are the undergraduates of big-time U.S. folksinging, the Limeliters are the faculty, and the chairman of the department is 37-year-old Lou Gottlieb, who in 1958 took his doctorate in musicology at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, presenting a thesis consisting of previously unpublished 15th century cyclic masses. On and offstage, Gottlieb continually seems to be wondering if he really exists, drops great polysyllables and 18-carat clichés like in extenso and in medias res, which are woofed into...
...ousted two members who refused to hold the line. One of the ousted is San Francisco's Nicholas Daphne, one of the city's most successful funeral directors. Daphne had discarded the association's "suggested" rock-bottom funeral price of $450, had agreed to handle a Berkeley co-op's business for $210 including embalming...