Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen, Russia's First Deputy Premier Frol Kozlov last week sped by plane and car across the U.S. on the final half of his first look at the U.S. What he saw was a richer panorama of Americana than many a U.S. resident sees in a lifetime. In California there were elegant dinners, a ceremonial visit to a winery, and a tour of the University of California's Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. In Detroit (where Mayor Louis Miriani refused to meet him), he got the full treatment from the top automakers and a private, free-for-all debate with...
...staffers (12,000 permanent, 10,000 temporary) were patrolling and supervising the 181 million acres of national forests that add up to one of the U.S. taxpayers' greatest assets. The 148 national forests, ranging in size and style from Alaska's 16-million-acre Tongass to California's 367-acre Calaveras Big Trees National Forest (sequoias), stretch across 39 states, occupy a massive one-twelfth of the continental U.S. land space, one-fifth of the land area of the Western states. Last year they drew 68.5 million campers and tourists, but few tourists realized that the amiable...
...California's Governors eventually get hung in the state capitol in Sacramento, and Portrait Subject Goodwin Knight, 62, California's Republican helmsman from 1953 until this year, knew that he would be no exception. From the start he failed to hit it off with Minnesota Artist Cameron Booth, picked by a nonpartisan art committee from more than 100 painters to immortalize Goodie in oil for a $3,000 fee. Last week Knight saw the result for the first time. His reaction: anguish. His main objections were to the color of his suit (brown, which he never wears...
...first library science course in 1901, the school's topflight Extension Division in 1912, the University of North Carolina Press in 1922. Robert Hutchins lured him to the University of Chicago in 1932, where he spent ten years training future heads of university libraries from Columbia to California, was elected president of the prestigious American Library Association. Back at Chapel Hill as an active teacher since 1942 (Chicago regretfully retired him at 65), Librarian Wilson becomes professor emeritus, a peppery gadfly who deluges the chancellor with notes of advice, will soon launch his 31st book...
...still a young professor at the University of Berlin; his monumental Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture is a three-volume university, a gold mine of the ideas that nurtured Western man. He left Hitler's Germany in the '30s, taught at the Universities of California and Chicago before going in 1939 to Harvard, where the Institute of Classical Studies was set up especially for him. Fondly called "Zeus" by colleagues, Jaeger was one of Harvard's least pretentious teachers, delivered gentle-voiced lectures while gazing out the window with his hands on his round paunch, loved...