Word: californias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fellow mediators were still trying to find a kernel of agreement that might serve as the starting point for a last-minute solution. McDonald trimmed his demands for a two-year wage and benefits increase of 28½? down to a 19¾? package-the level at which California's Edgar Kaiser had urged his fellow steel men to settle. Industry's Cooper stonily told the fact finders that McDonald's package would really cost 33?, and the proposal was "unacceptable"; in its place he stood on a threeyear, 30? package (which the steelworkers said was worth...
Unconfirmed reports late last night stated that Owen Chamberlin, visiting lecturer in Physics, may receive this year's Nobel Prize for his work in quantum mechanics. Chamberlin, currently teaching Physics 283, High Energy Physics, is on leave as a professor of Physics at University of California...
...James Payson Dixon, 42, as 15th president of "study-plus-work" Antioch College (enrollment: 1,300) in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Physician Dixon succeeds Samuel B. Gould, who became the first chancellor of the University of California at Santa Barbara. A genial, rugged down-Easter, raised on a Maine farm, Dixon is an Antioch graduate (1939). He did the school's part-time circuit (alternating terms of study and work) by night clerking and bus building, went on to Harvard Medical School and a career in public health. Dr. Dixon did a notable seven-year job as Philadelphia...
...diploma mills," which have run a carefree con game around the globe for more than a century. Trouble is that the mills are blossoming as never before. At least 200 crooked schools in 37 states, the council reported, are raking in $75 million from 750,000 victims a year. California alone may have 100 such schools. A top West German investigator of academic frauds used to get 2,000 complaints annually about U.S. diploma mills. Now he gets 6,000, and calls the mills "the largest such operation in the world...
...Southern California (3-0)-sat out the weekend, but has shown enough power in beating Pittsburgh 23-0 and Ohio State 21-0 to look like the best West Coast team in years...