Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Money flowed like ballpark beer, and college stars gleefully acted as their own auctioneers. The Detroit Lions lost Southern Cal Quarterback Pete Beathard, their No. 1 draft choice, to the A.F.L.'s Kansas City Chiefs. The Chiefs gave Beathard a $15,000 bonus for signing, a $20,000 contract, stock in a pay-TV company, a new car and a rent-free apartment...
...bunch of alums were whooping it up in a highway-side saloon, toasting Stanford's football victory over Cal, when a young old grad called for the Stanford hymn. "How does it go?" someone asked. "From the ... something . . . something ..." a voice began. "Foothills? Mountains?" someone suggested. Others dimly recalled "in the sunset fire" and "raise our voices singing," until at length a young wife bravely quavered...
...flashed the scene instantaneously across the nation's television sets. Precisely twelve seconds after Oswald appeared, Ruby ducked out from his position among the newsmen. A detective saw him, recognized him. "Jack!" he cried. "You crazy son of a bitch!" As the cop spoke, Ruby pointed his .38-cal. revolver at Oswald and fired one shot. Oswald died 100 minutes later at Parkland General Hospital...
...high 10% of enrollment) are there mainly for that purpose. California's $3 billion-a-year farm industry still needs trained talent. But Davis now has more than twice as many liberal arts students as regular aggies. Engineering enrollment has jumped 48% in the past year. Like all Cal campuses, Davis takes only the top 12% of California high school students (out-of-staters need a B+ average). One result: a new Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Another: Cal President Clark Kerr's own son attends Davis...
...Cal's regents envision Davis as the cultural leader of the Central Valley. The English faculty is adorned with men such as Hart Crane Biographer Brom Weber and Critic-Short Story Writer William Van O'Connor. Music has avant-garde Composer Larry Austin, protege of Darius Milhaud. Painters Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Petersen help make Davis tops in art among Cal campuses. Drama boasts talented young acting students with a beard or two, and this year's visiting lecturer, Director Joseph Schildkraut, has already staged an excellent Peer Gynt. Symbolic of the times, the old Davis livestock...