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...services to be eliminated or reduced, the closing of the Municipal Plunge, used almost entirely by the black community (10% of the city), may cause the most trouble. It is the only source of relief from the summer heat for most of the blacks in town. Says Cornelius Collier, 22, a student at California Poly in nearby Pomona: "White folks have their pools or can afford the drive to the beach. If this pool doesn't open up, we're gonna fight...
...money," said Dr. Johnson, who nonetheless spent most of his life in poverty. In the platinum age of periodicals, roughly from the 1920s to the 1950s, it was possible for man to live by word alone, provided he sold it to a magazine. The Saturday Evening Post, Look, Collier's, LIFE, Woman's Home Companion and Coronet routinely rewarded writers more handsomely than many magazines do today. The Post paid $5,000 to F. Scott Fitzgerald for diamonds smaller than the Ritz and, shortly before the weekly's death in 1969, $2,500 to anyone...
...Bruce Collier, assistant to the dean of the Faculty, said that the rise in the number of applications in the late '60s resulted from students trying to avoid the draft. "Any male who didn't want to go to Vietnam went to graduate school. It became the normal thing...
...Bruce Collier, assistant dean for financial affairs, said last month that if colleges could not be sure that professors would have to retire at a specified age, they might be forced to institute broad reviews of competence that could not legally be limited to faculty over age 65. Such a review could effectively destroy security of tenure, Collier said...
...Collier added the bill would "substantially decrease" the number of academic jobs in the country as a whole in the years immediately after its passage. The long-term effect of increasing the teaching life of professors would be more moderate, he said, although "the job picture for PhD's will remain bleak into the indefinite future...