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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college football's "game of the year." U.C.L.A. against Southern Cal. The No. 1 team in the nation against No. 3 (or No. 4, depending on the poll). Passer Gary Beban against Runner O. J. Simpson. At stake: the Pacific Eight title, a Rose Bowl bid and the Heisman Trophy. "Whichever team wins this game should be the national champion," insisted Southern Cal Coach John McKay. After what happened last Saturday-U.C.L.A.'s Beban passing for two T.D.s, U.S.C.'s Simpson running for two, Southern Cal winning by the slim margin of a missed extra point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Spoilers | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...favored (by 19 points) Purdue, then the No. 2-ranked team in the U.S. Three weeks ago, they battled to a 16-16 tie with the U.C.L.A. Bruins, who at that time held the No. 2 spot. Two weeks ago, by a score of 3-0, they knocked Southern Cal's Trojans out of the unbeaten ranks and the No. 1 ranking. And how much recognition did those remarkable performances earn them? Not much. Last week, for the first time all season, Oregon State's "Spoilers" finally cracked the Top Ten in the wire-service polls-both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Spoilers | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

Jarrell was one of the elite, and one can read this book for titilating glimpses into the insider's world of working poets. In places Lowell is called "Cal" and William Carlos Williams "Bill," and the coziness is compulsively fascinating to an outsider. But the real question is what brought this great and loving fraternity of American poets together? And the answer--God-like Randall--is fascinating...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: The Poet and Critic in Retrospect | 11/21/1967 | See Source »

...think any university has as strict a rule as Harvard concerning the refusal to do classified work," Gentry said. "We're on one extreme," he said. "M.I.T. and Cal Tech are on the other, and the vast majority of the rest are somewhere in the middle...

Author: By Andrew Jamison, | Title: How 'Taint' Is Harvard Research Money? | 11/20/1967 | See Source »

Teaching science is becoming a financial problem even for schools that specialize in it. Last week M.I.T. announced that it will need a minimum of $135 million in additional private funds within the next ten years for expansion. Cal Tech has also kicked off a fiveyear, $85.4 million campaign, with most of the money expected to go for new buildings and increased operating costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Upping the Ante | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

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