Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Maurice V. Moriarty Inglewood, Calif...
When contacted twice in the past week, Nelson, who is supposed to receive his Ph.D. this June and who recently signed a two-year assistant professorship contract with Claremont Men's College in Pomona, Calif., first denied the book theft allegations saying, "No, No I don't know anything about that," and last night refused to speak to the Crimson...
...Reynolds Poway, Calif...
...American Graffiti Lucas did more than that. He worked out his entire adolescence. Set in Modesto, Calif, where he grew up, the film is the perfect image of bored, rootless teen-agers in 1962, the year he finished high school. Says Lucas: "I spent my teen years cruising McHenry Avenue in Modesto." At that time his only ambition was to race cars, but a near-fatal crash two days before graduation forced him to spend three months in a hospital. When he came out, he decided to go to college. After two years at Modesto Junior College, he entered...
Died. Robert Maynard Hutchins, 78, iconoclastic educator who became president of the University of Chicago at 30; of kidney disease; in Santa Barbara, Calif. As the youthful dean of the Yale Law School and then president and chancellor of the University of Chicago for 22 years, Hutchins was a foe of "trivialization" and vocationalism. Believing that education required exposure to the original works of distinguished thinkers, he introduced the Great Books course at Chicago. Another innovation was the flexible "Chicago Plan," which allowed students to enter and leave the university whenever they could pass the entrance and final examinations. Hutchins...