Word: colossuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More Giants. Kerr's own colossus of seven campuses and 58,600 students (soon to double) reflects the pattern. Last year the University of California had operating costs of almost $500 million, with almost another $100 million for construction. It employed more than 40,000 people, delivered 4,000 babies in its hospitals, offered 10,000 courses, taught 200,000 extension students, and ran aid and research projects in more than 50 countries. No one man can really run such an establishment, says Kerr. The day of the "giant" university president is past. Now comes the "mediator" trying...
...Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "The Colossus" stars Leo Genn as a Nobel-prizewinning scientist charged with the murder of his wife...
...second straight week, the House Special Subcommittee on Investigations poked and prodded at the A. C. Nielsen Co., the colossus of the television rating industry...
...Clay committee argued that both India and Pakistan should continue to be heavy beneficiaries of U.S. aid, if only because of their precarious positions against the "Red Chinese colossus." But what is the sense of helping a mixed-up country like left-leaning Sukarno's Indonesia? Says the Clay report: "We do not see how external assistance can be granted to this nation by free world countries, unless it puts its internal house in order, provides fair treatment to foreign creditors and enterprises, and refrains from international adventures...
...industrious apprentice novelist on the island of Corfu. What made him keep opening the letter and reading it again and again in the rain was the fact that it was from that self-acknowledged genius Henry Miller, 21 years older and not yet world-famous but already a coterie colossus dangerously engaged in living his autobiography in Paris. Indeed, the younger man regarded Miller as so great that he was "furious that people haven't simply burst in on your privacy and carried you off to found American literature at home." Compared with Tropic of Cancer, wrote Durrell...