Word: california
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...summons to arms comes from the self-styled Tibetan Brigade, a force being organized at the University of California in Berkley. Now in the process of raising men and money for the mission, the Brigade hopes to enter Tibet this summer and give military, moral, and material aid to the anti-Communist native forces...
...cutest students at California's Mills College, winsome Amy Hsiao-chang Chiang, 21, turned out with classmates and faculty members for a picnic lunch in a dormitory courtyard, giggled at a series of skits staged by freshman girls. Sophomore Amy, who transferred to the all-woman school this term from Formosa's University of Soochow, is the granddaughter of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and the daughter of. Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo. She has thus far not dated any U.S. swains but is frequently escorted by her brother Alan, a University of California freshman...
...offered, young Segal went off to World War II. "I was a corporal twice and a sergeant once, but I went in and came out a private. I don't get along with people-only slugs." In 1946 he hitchhiked across country to enter the University of Southern California on the G.I. Bill, got his doctorate in zoology at U.C.L.A. "My girl friend was studying embryology. We met over a pig embryo, and so we got married...
...schooners of yesteryear are down to a handful, but they have been replaced many times over by 35-and 45-ft. yawls and ketches, better suited to an age dominated by the income tax and the high cost of other people's labor. Harbors from Maine to California swarm with new thousands of prams, skiffs and small sailing craft. Lumped under the heading of non-powered boats, such craft increased from...
...most fervent opponents of splits are old-line managements who feel that the high price of a stock is synonymous with quality. Splitting a blue chip selling at $100 so that it sells at $20 would wash out its blueness. Superior Oil of California takes a defiant pride in the fact that its stock sells at $1,850 a share...