Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...citations are connection with the Junior Chamber's annual congress, which is meeting in Santa Monica, Cal...
...huge, rich state university? Last week the National Merit Scholarship Corp. told what it had learned when it asked 21,000 high school senior boys and 14.000 girls, all in the top 2% of their classes, to name their choices. Results, in order, for boys: Harvard, M.I.T., Stanford, Cal Tech., Yale, University of California at Berkeley, Cornell, Princeton, Columbia, Rice. For girls: Stanford, Radcliffe, Cornell, Wellesley, California at Berkeley, University of Michigan, Duke, Smith, Barnard, Oberlin...
...bald, unprepossessing man who looked like a half brother to both Adlai Stevenson and Alfred Hitchcock, Giesler delivered his exhortations to juries in a crescendoing whine, sometimes trailing off into the deep purple. He defended Walter Wanger after the jealous producer fired a -38-cal. slug into the groin of a fellow whom he considered too attentive to his wife, Joan Bennett. Giesler decided this was temporary insanity. "For a brief mo ment," he told the jury, "through the violet haze of early evening, Wanger saw things in a bluish flash." The jury some how saw it that...
...other hand, parents are egregiously hopped up about college-often because they fear losing face with other parents. Says one Alameda, Calif., teacher: "We hear things like this: 'I don't care what my child learns as long as he gets a B average and gets into Cal.' " This sort of thing creates more tension in students than anything else. A lot of teachers wish a lot of grownups would grow up to their children...
...last week. And, though the big bowl games are a month off, undefeated Fresno State beat Bowling Green 36-6 in Los Angeles' Mercy Bowl, which aims to raise money for the families of 16 players killed in last year's crash of a plane carrying the Cal Poly football team...