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...faculty are high on Heyns. To the regents, he represents a fine blend of diplomatic tact and no-nonsense firmness. "He is strong but open-minded in dealing with young people, though not so wild a dreamer that he will go off into orbit with them," says Mrs. Norman ("Buff") Chandler. "He's a man who wants to be working in the tomorrow of education," adds Financier Norton Simon, "and tomorrow is already here at Berkeley." Faculty members are impressed by Heyns's demonstrated emphasis on teaching at Michigan, consider him as open to new ideas...
...husband Richard Bonynge, and there was an authentic touch of the Scottish highlands in the sets and luxurious costumes. Result was 33 curtain calls. As La Stupenda plucked sprays from Cooktown orchids for the supporting cast and kissed her husband, enthusiastic galleryites stamped so loudly that a nervous opera buff sitting below wondered: "How long can the theater stand the strain of a Sutherland tour...
...Only a few miles farther south, near the almost alarmingly pretty village of Carmel, the tennis buff can find a kind of nirvana. It is Gardiner's Tennis Ranch, founded in 1958 by the Del Monte Lodge's former tennis pro when the notion struck him that "if nothing else interferes, you can really perfect your tennis game." Based in a California ranch house set in a stand of oak and eucalyptus trees that provided a windbreak, his tiny but flourishing operation has accommodations for 22 people, includes two swimming pools, seven
Double Dip. Samantha's distress kept pace with her role; her shadows darkened as the heroine wasted away. Verisimilitude was everything. Wyler even insisted that the two nude scenes be played entirely in the buff, and one of them, a bathtub scene, was shot and reshot for five hours. For conventraised Samantha, it was this very embarrassment that gave veracity to her fumbling, desperate efforts to seduce her captor-which was precisely the effect Wyler wanted. "Looking back," Samantha admits, "I must say it made sense; it was valid...
Mario Savio, the student chiefly responsible for the dustup, said: "It sounds like a great report." And Byrne won other support. Regent Buff Chandler called it "a good piece of research, well written, with many salient points." Her family newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, published all 85 pages. Governor Pat Brown called it "very thoughtful, very provocative, a good report." U.C.L.A.'s Chancellor Franklin Murphy agreed with its major points...