Word: duking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leave Northern California, except to go to Hawaii, which is the network's idea of Queensland. You don't see many gum trees either, and Qantas didn't lend the filmmakers its koala, but they did borrow a kangaroo, and now and again the director, Daryl Duke, shoos it across the set for local color. It died of a heart attack during the shooting, they tell me. No wonder. I suppose with white cockatoos going for $2,000 apiece, after Baretta, they couldn't have any flocks of those; there were enough flaming galahs behind...
...History is repeating itself in Irvine," said Jon Wiener, a professor of history at UCI, in reference to events at Duke a year...
Last year violent student, faculty, and community protest at Duke forced cancellation of the plans to locate the library there...
...proposed Richard M. Nixon presidential library which sparred so much controversy at Duke a year ago, is making headlines once again--the time more than 3,000 miles to the west...
According to Wiener, parallels to the Duke scenario include a 10-day decision period for the university and administration heavy-handedness. "The administration is treating the library in the same fashion," he said. The only difference the library has been sealed down from 150,000 to 100,000 square feet. The Chronicle, Duke University