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...picture and the balanced upbeat view reflects the style of Council Chairman Kerr, who taught industrial relations before becoming president of the University of California in 1958. It became the country's most prominent model of what Kerr called a "multiversity," a farflung, state-supported educational emporium that served society in all sorts of ways. While some students were majoring in winemaking or arts and crafts, others were pursuing advanced degrees in psychotherapy or plasma physics. During Kerr's reign, the University of California grew from two to eight main campuses, with 87,000 enrolled students. The multiversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Clark Kerr's Valedictory | 1/28/1980 | See Source »

...City of Cambridge is trying to dim the flashing lights at the Game Time pinball emporium at Porter Square...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Leiman and Kenneth J. Ryan, S | Title: City Sues Under Pinball Law | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

During the colonial era, the four-block stretch from the lake to the French opera house was the fanciest shopping street in Indochina. Today the stores are eerily quiet. Little except 60? busts of Ho are available at the Fine Arts Emporium. An elegant photography studio hints at Hanoi's genteel past, but the only examples of the proprietor's craft are dusty portraits of Ho, Che Guevara and Jane Fonda. Inside the massive central department store, no amount of artful deployment of bicycle parts and condensed milk can hide the fact that little is being produced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VIET NAM: Here, Everyone Suffers Equally' | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

...Wilson, 40, a former precision-instruments salesman who switched to the nostalgia industry nine years ago, when he turned an unexpectedly tidy profit on a surplus lot of 1,000 old pull-chain toilets -a $100,000 windfall now memorialized in the name of his company: Golden Movement Emporium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In California: The Joy of Spending | 7/16/1979 | See Source »

...Killen--The Music Emporium, 2018 Mass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weekly What Listings Calendar: May 10-May 16 | 5/10/1979 | See Source »

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