Word: fresno
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...Fresno St 85. U.C.Lisine...
...Fresno, Calif...
...face of it, Susan Montgomery Williams of Fresno, Calif., Willie Hollingsworth of Freeport, N.Y., and the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, 64, president of the University of Notre Dame, would not appear to have a lot in common. But this year they are all set to be included in that uncommon nominator, the Guinness Book of World Records: Williams for blowing the largest bubble-gum bubble (19¼ in.), Hollingsworth for balancing a milk bottle on his head while walking 18½ miles (a truly dying art), and Father Hesburgh for accumulating more honorary degrees than anyone else ever has. Next...
...helped to cushion the deepening industry-wide slump in steel orders. In Houston (". . . the only place on earth where I have heard 'trillion' used in casual conversation ...") he learned that there are more branches of foreign banks than in any other U.S. city except New York. In Fresno, Calif., he found a county as agriculturally productive as many entire countries ("... 5,500 tons of figs, 40,000 tons of black olives, 175,000 tons of peaches..."). Not surprisingly, in Kahn's 3,500-word essay, the last word...
...State was fertile ground for organizing. Unlike the prestigious University of California system, an academic powerhouse of nine branches, including Berkeley and U.C.L.A., Cal State evolved as a collection of teacher colleges in such cities as San Jose, Chico and Fresno. Partly because it emphasizes teaching instead of research, Cal State has been treated as a second-class organization. Money and a slight inferiority complex have not been its only problems. At a time when job security is poor and tenure is an impossible dream to many young academics all over the country...