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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flowers and leaves abound, in big bowls, little vases, jars. On shelves and tables are figurines and archaeologi cal finds, Chinese porcelain, and affectionately inscribed photographs of the great...
...students in introductory courses. He lectures, answers questions, conducts lab sessions, grades the students. He is supervised by a professor, who usually also delivers mass lectures in the course. The TA rarely gets much formal instruction in teaching. "You just walk in and face the enemy," says Cal TA Roberto Bernardo, 27. For the TA, who may be only a few years older than his students, teaching at a major university is heady stuff and valuable experience. "When we get to talking about our classes," says Michigan Fellow Solomon Cytrynbaum, 27, who teaches psychology, "it makes me wish...
...troops were under strict orders not to fire unless fired upon. For several hours, paratroopers, forbidden to interfere, watched rebels assemble a .50-cal. machine gun atop a building. When the machine gun cut loose, the troopers disassembled it with one shot from a 106-mm. recoilless rifle. But that was unusual. A sniper pinned a paratrooper in a doorway one night, and before corps headquarters finally granted permission for covering fire, the G.I. counted 183 shots zinging off the walls around him. "We're fighting politics, and maybe that's O.K.," said the sergeant. "But, man, they...
...report was directed by Jerome C. Byrne, 39, a labor-law specialist and honors graduate of Harvard Law School, whose partnership in the respected Los Angeles law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher made him seem a sensible choice to investigate the eight months of unrest at Cal. But when Regent Chairman Edward Carter saw the report, he angrily called Byrne a "young, inexperienced guy, unaware of the pitfalls in a university administration." President Clark Kerr buttoned his lip, but was reported to be upset...
...bound to "pursue paths that the great majority of people regard as silly, dangerous or both." But "there is hardly a single example, either in America or elsewhere, of a distinguished university which has been directly responsible to popular opinion." Quite properly, the 16-year staggered terms of Cal's regents permit them to "remain comparatively aloof to the headlines, telephone calls and opinion polls...