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...Angeles school system, which needs-and builds-14 new class rooms a week, pays the highest teacher salaries (average: $8,800) of any major U.S. school system. State-supported U.C.L.A. has become a topnotch school with less fuss and furor than Berkeley, and the privately endowed University of Southern California has evolved from a mere football school into a respected seat of learning. In fact, Los Angeles now has a higher-education complex that rivals the Boston area. And the Los Angeles Times, under the guiding hand of Otis Chandler, 38, has put away its stuffiness and now provides...
...wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying," mumbled John Lennon. For a Beatle, that was an apology. John and his three shaggy sidekicks flew into Chicago to open their 18-day U.S. tour, more than a little apprehensive over their reception after the fuss kicked up by John's crack that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus. "We've got to go to America to get beaten up," moaned George Harrison as they left London. Now John was trying to smooth things over. "I never meant it as a lousy irreligious thing...
Geneticist Bentley Glass incited the fuss last winter when he suggested that human bodies began balding as soon as warm clothes ended the need for tufted torsos. Scoffing, one writer charged Glass with Lamarckianism, the discredited 1809 theory of French Naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, who argued that giraffe necks grew long because the animals preferred eating treetop leaves and that such acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. In rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts...
Obviously, there are too many guidebooks to Europe. Unfortunately, there is not one that can match the oldtime, red-bound Baedekers. Karl Baedeker, who died in 1859, was an autocratic, uncompromising fuss-budget who personally inspected everything he wrote about-which was everything that he considered the traveler might need to know. He provided descriptions of all important celebrations, cathedrals, castles, monuments and masterpieces. He also rated Europe's decent restaurants and hotels, gave his opinion of regional dishes, wines and morals, counseled his readers on their health, and constantly warned them on the evils of everything from Paris...
...motion picture industry. He has won 900 other awards and five honorary doctorates (though he never graduated from high school). The corporation bearing his name has grown fourfold in ten years; in 1965 it grossed $110 million-a 27% rise over 1964. The charitable foundation he established without fuss or ballyhoo has generously endowed educational and cultural activities in Southern California. Yet for all his laurels, Walt Disney at 64 is still the busiest man in Hollywood...