Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already have Clark Kerr at Berkeley.'' This month, slight, balding Labor Economist Kerr, Berkeley's chancellor since 1952, took over the presidency. He found himself saddle-high on a job that is probably the biggest in U.S. education, and is destined to grow a lot bigger. Today California has eight campuses and 42,114 students (the country's second largest university: Minnesota, with 35,000 students). Three more campuses are planned, and a fourth is talked of; by 1970 the university is expected to be educating an awesome 108,300 students. Clark Kerr's university...
...begun to catch up with Berkeley in capacity (16,081 students last fall). In some areas, U.C.L.A. Chancellor Raymond B. Allen declares, his school surpasses Berkeley in academic excellence. Added to the university in 1919, 46 years after Berkeley started classes, the school has a less finished look, a bigger parking problem and a less famed faculty, jealously compares honors won (1958 Guggenheims: eleven for U.C.L.A., 19 for Berkeley...
...Alfred Blalock and later surgeons, the change seen in him was the same: he turned from blue to pink while still on the operating table. On the sixth day he was walking. Now, five months after the operation, Kent is riding a two-wheeler. His heart, instead of growing bigger but weaker, seems actually to be smaller and stronger. Like the dog that had the same operation 3½ years ago, Kent can run and jump with the rest, no longer turns blue except after truly strenuous exercise...
...facing a major new threat. So many underdeveloped countries are running out of foreign exchange, because of the drop in sales of raw materials, that economists fear world trade will be drastically curtailed, and many a nation plunged into depression. Britain is also strong for a bigger fund...
...Bonn could well afford to double its quota in the fund. Since the German mark is as sound as the dollar, an increase in the German quota would greatly reduce pressure on the fund's U.S. dollars. The U.S. also wants a stronger fund, able to swing a bigger stick to force its members to keep their fiscal houses in order. This would take much of the heat off the U.S. which often has to perform this disagreeable job when considering foreign loans...