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Last week Heyns announced his resignation. He is leaving partly because of a mild heart attack last summer, partly to gain relief from grueling 16-hour days, partly to end the frustrations of coping with Governor Ronald Reagan's majority on the board of regents. Above all, this fall's calm gave him a chance to leave without appearing to quit under fire and to return to his old job as professor of psychology and education at the University of Michigan. His exit confronts the troubled, nine-campus University of California with a second hard-to-fill vacancy...
...Maybe we made a mild miscalculation," Burr admitted. "I thought there would be more student groups that would put themselves together. But the reaction we've gotten has been both friendly and helpful. I was in college myself at the time Conant was chosen. I remember I was deeply and completely uninterested...
...scholarship came unanimously from members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which is by far the largest and most influential constituency which the Corporation must deal within the search. The reaction of the Faculty to the present list, however, has ranged from unenthusiastic approval to boredom to mild outrage...
That has turned out to be a mild understatement. Segal has made enough money from the book, which has been translated into 20 languages thus far, to retire "several times over...
...ingenious youth aggravated a mild hernia by lifting 100-lb. sacks of sand prior to his exam. Doctors disagreed on the seriousness of his condition, but agreed that anyone so determined to avoid service would make a bad soldier and excused him for psychological reasons. Another failed color tests until he was awarded a 4-F classification, while a married registrant succeeded in convincing doctors that his wife would go crazy in his absence. The prize for determination goes to a six-footer who managed by careful dieting to keep his weight below the minimum for his full height until...