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During the "golden decade" (1957-67), U.C. doubled its enrollment, to 95,292, added three new campuses and three medical schools, and attracted not only a stellar faculty but millions of dollars in research grants. "Those were the years the cookie jar was open," says U.C. Riverside Vice Chancellor Carlo Golino. "All you had to do was dig in and pull out a new laboratory." Toward the end of that decade, however, student turmoil spread from Berkeley to other California campuses-caused in part by youthful dissatisfaction over the rapid growth of the mega-university -and then came the recession...
...smell and the hydrocarbons and the hot dust that blow into the one-room headquarters. Inside, there is a five-foot high, very grainy litho of Wallace with about half a smile, and on a card-table there are the usual bumper stickers, buttons, pamphlets--plus a big pickle jar full of bills and change: Wallace supporters pay for this material...
Even outside companies have been caught out by Lincoln's Raiders. Best Foods received a letter from Sixth Grader Brian Houser noting that "on the label of a jar of Skippy dry-roasted mixed nuts I noticed that cashews are listed first. But I found more peanuts. Our committee believes that you should correct the label." (The company replied that Brian's jar was "a poor representative of this line" and enclosed a coupon for another.) Next, some candy companies may have to recall their Euclid shipments because their product does not maintain the proper heft for Saturday...
...into a state cop with three gallons under my seat. He took my license, but he never found the stuff. Since that day, I never went back to get my license." All he knows is that every so often a man in an old Chrysler pulls up, wraps the jars in brown paper and places them in the trunk, which has been refitted to carry more than 200 half-gallons. The moonshiner receives $5 a jar from the runner, who resells...
...Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (Bantam...