Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What happens when the vast generation of war babies (now 15-19 years old) really hits the public campuses? Nobody has spent more hours seeking precise answers than Clark Kerr, president of the mammoth, seven-campus* University of California (47,895 students), the largest college complex in the U.S. Few states are growing faster than California: whether by birth or by migration, the population increases by one a minute. Each year California's growth matches the size of San Diego. Each day it needs one new school. Already it has the nation's biggest public school system...
...three new campuses and to educate 118,900 students. To do this, it must spend $700 million to build three times as much physical plant in the next 15 years as it has in the last 90. With awe, Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey calls Kerr's job "one of the most difficult and exacting posts in the whole history of higher education...
...involves a lot more than mailing a budget to Sacramento. In no other state is there such hot competition among so many public campuses. In no other state is there such need for coordination among them. California has a good record in this respect. But ascetic, Pennsylvania-born Economist Kerr has made it better. This year's top education news in California is the "Master Plan"-an academic armistice largely fashioned by onetime Labor Mediator Kerr, who in 500 major labor negotiations developed the subtle skill that makes aides call him "the Machiavellian Quaker...
...time, Kerr had just stepped up from the chancellorship to the presidency at Berkeley. He has an entirely different style from his gregarious predecessor, Californian Robert Gordon Sproul. An able politician, Sproul wanted to pick off the state colleges one by one and make Cal campuses out of them (Cal got Santa Barbara that...
...reflecting TV's recent back-to-Poe trend toward suspenseful dilemmas that need to be solved rather than shot, opens its first regular season this week (after four shows last spring) with Rex Harrison and Tammy Grimes in a superb, spoofily whimsical adaptation by Drama Critic Walter Kerr of Richard Marsh's The Datchet Diamonds. Exchanging his Gladstone bag by error with another that contains some ?36,000 worth of stolen gems, Rex manages to preserve his fortune, restore the diamonds, fall in love with Tammy and simultaneously avoid being done in by the woggiest group of thugs...