Word: kerr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alternative, some faculty members favored the "open access" strategy pioneered by University of California President Clark Kerr ten years ago. California now has a three-tiered system of public campuses: state universities are limited to the top eighth of high school graduates; state colleges accept the top third, and community colleges are open to all. The U.S. already has more than 1,000 two-year colleges and is adding more at the rate of one per week. In his higher-education message to Congress last March, President Nixon endorsed this expansion strategy wholeheartedly. "A traditional four-year college program...
...wisdom alike lead only to death, and still not give way to despair, but to the making of lovely and magic pictures, is the triumph of one human spirit." The show has toured the major art centers of the Southwest, next week opens at Manhattan's Coe Kerr gallery...
...Among the members: the John D. Rockefellers III and IV, Ralph Bunche, C. Douglas Dillon, Robert Goheen, Clark Kerr, Robert Roosa, Frank Stanton, Thomas Watson, Whitney Young...
That the magazine made its first deadline at all, let alone impressively, is a phenomenon in itself. Essence's full-time staff numbers only 26 (four of whom, including Kerr, are white). The first issue took its toll of editors in chief, losing both Bernadette Carey (of Vogue) and Ruth Ross (ex-Newsweek) to shakedown strife. "It was a good beginning," says Ida Lewis, 34, the pert, formerly Paris-based freelance writer just signed on as the new editor in chief, "but I want to emphasize the positive aspects of black femininity. The black woman already knows what...
...Reuben (1) 3. Mary Queen of Scots, Fraser (3) 4. New English Bible (7) 5. The Selling of the President 1968, McGinniss (6) 6. Love and Will, May (5) 7. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou (8) 8. Points of Rebellion, Douglas (10) 9. The Graham Kerr Cookbook 10. The American Heritage Dictionary...