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ROSE BOWL (NBC, 4:45 p.m.). U.S.C. r. Purdue, from Pasadena...
...test, Julia's cooking was a bust. As a girl she was a tomboy in a well-to-do Pasadena, Calif., family of six-footers (both her sister and brother, like Julia, top 6 ft., making their mother modest in her boast: "I have produced 18 feet of children"). Julia was content to eat what the family cook served, learned her mothers complete cooking repertory: baking-powder biscuits and Welsh rabbit, and little else. The one time she tried to cook pancakes for breakfast, she recalls, "it took about an hour. It was a real mess...
...departments, with Jacqueline Kennedy as its active president. Its aim: to raise $2,500,000 for salvage operations. One of its first acts: to dispatch 16 expert restorers to the site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, the former hilltop home of Connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Then she carefully washed them one by one, saved them...
...goals. Last week Caltech (enrollment 1,494) held a three-day scientific convocation to observe its 75th anniversary. A few weeks earlier, M.I.T. (enrollment 7,400) inaugurated a new president, Economist Howard Wesley Johnson, 44. As each school looks inward, it also stares across the 2,600 miles between Pasadena and Cambridge with what an M.I.T. professor terms "interested tension"-a polite phrase for one of academe's hottest and healthiest rivalries...
...their interests seem to merge, Caltech and M.I.T. are nevertheless likely to retain a distinctive difference in attitude. Caltech, content with its quiet 75-acre campus in Pasadena, is determined to remain small enough to retain what DuBridge calls "a feeling of family." M.I.T., pushed against the Charles River by crowded Cambridge, is ambitious to grow. "In the past, we have been grooming the student to run U.S. Steel," says M.I.T.'s Professor Valley. "Now we are grooming...