Word: californiaisms
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Young makes no pretense of being a scholar: his bibliography consists of two learned articles on California's education code and municipal government. Nonetheless, Young was the choice to succeed Murphy, primarily because of his record as an administrator who can get along with students. Unlike Berkeley, U.C.L.A. has never had a major student rebellion. Former Chancellor Murphy, now chairman of the Los Angeles Times Mirror Co., gives Young credit for that record. He calls him "the best-qualified academic administrator in the country." The rambunctious, student-run Daily Bruin agrees; it enthusiastically supported his candidacy...
Positive Force. A graduate of California's Riverside campus, Young earned his Ph.D. in political science at U.C.L.A. and gained some practical knowledge about the subject while serving for two years in Washington as an aide to Congressman Lee Metcalf. In 1959, he was hired as a staff assistant to Clark Kerr, then president of the University of California. One year later, Franklin Murphy lured him to U.C.L.A. as his personal assistant, eventually got him promoted to assistant chancellor and began to groom him as a potential successor. While Murphy planned and directed U.C.L.A.'s massive expansion program...
...some of the competitors would have been better off at sea level. In the 10,000 meters, for example, none of the first three finishers even man aged to equal the Olympic qualifying standard. But in most of the other events, the thin air was obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when...
...started in the days when a wise old owl was J. Walter's trademark. Strouse had a final cup of coffee and a last cigar with colleagues. Then he took a "down" elevator to Manhattan's Lexington Avenue and headed off to a retirement house in Northern California's Napa Valley...
...some degree to be a spokesman. Though he never went to college, he is an ardent bibliophile, reads books as avidly as he hoards them, and once wrote a guide to book collecting called How to Build a Poor Man's Morgan Library. Accordingly, the University of California at Santa Cruz has tapped Strouse to become a regent's professor. In that capacity, starting next March, he will lecture and conduct seminars on art, literature, the history of rare books, the philosophy of business management and pragmatic economics. He may also work in a few words...