Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many people are as relaxed as Author Jean Kerr, who remarks: "I didn't bother to be discreet. I thought, if I have to be careful I just won't tell anything. So I told everything." Each interviewer has his own questioning techniques, but what they all strive for is a rapport that will allow the subject to relax enough to show his real character. "It's wonderful if people will talk freely, just bubble on," says Theater Critic Theodore Kalem. "Lauren Bacall happens to be the bar-buddy sort of girl who is easy to talk...
...Smith at a special meeting of the regents in Los Angeles last week, call for a cut in the state's contribution to the university from this year's $240 million to $192 million-a 20% slash and nearly a third less than what University President Clark Kerr and the regents had sought. To make up the difference, Smith proposed to take $22 million from a special regents' reserve fund and save $5,000,000 more by delaying Berkeley's scheduled shift to a quarter system this summer. Smith argued that the proposed tuition charge would...
...proposals touched off a statewide uproar. At the regents' meeting, President Kerr bluntly answered that the cuts would mean the denial of admission next year to 10,000 new students and 12,500 present ones. Kerr also contended that tuition would only send more students into the 72 community-supported junior colleges, which, in turn, would force local governments to raise property taxes-taxes that Reagan assailed in his campaign as too high already. U.C.L.A.'s Chancellor Franklin Murphy said he would have to shut down evening extension courses, cut back student health services, delay expansion of medical...
...budget had the unexpected side effect of unifying-at least for the moment-the university's often divided students, administrators and regents. Students attending the regents' meeting warmly applauded Kerr and gave a standing ovation to Simon, who conceded that the cheers were "a new experience" for him as a regent. More than 1,000 undergraduates at relatively staid U.C.L.A. held the largest protest rally of the year and, predicted one senior, "kids here who haven't been activists are going...
Fresno State, and the college's Chancellor Glenn S. Dumke announced unhappily that he was forced to suspend the admission of all new students until the financial picture was clarified. Kerr then ordered a similar hold on all university admissions...