Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the University of California regents set out last year to pick a replacement for retiring President Robert Gordon Sproul, they polled the nation's top educators for opinions, got a nearly unanimous consensus: "You already have Clark Kerr at Berkeley.'' This month, slight, balding Labor Economist Kerr, Berkeley's chancellor since 1952, took over the presidency. He found himself saddle-high on a job that is probably the biggest in U.S. education, and is destined to grow a lot bigger. Today California has eight campuses and 42,114 students (the country's second largest...
...spectrum of real estate, from buying and building to renting and managing. The company specializes in opening up new areas of cities, is often followed by other firms once it builds. "If you get there first," says Tishman, "you find remarkably little competition. I first trust my instincts to pick the sites, then take a thorough economic survey. If the survey bears out my instincts, we go ahead. If not, I stick with the survey and forget my instincts. This is no business for guesswork...
...Author Doris Lessing about her craft. Moreover, her anger is never clothed in whining self-pity or adolescent sneers. Born in Persia, raised in South Africa and now a Londoner, Doris Lessing finds life less than perfect wherever she finds herself. The short stories in The Habit of Loving pick up her quarry in places as varied as France, South Africa, England, Bavaria. As might be expected, the title is ironic. In these stories there is a good deal more of habit than of loving...
...medical and hospitalization plans, marking the complete breakdown of efforts to reconcile A.M.A.-U.M.W. differences. Root of the trouble: A.M.A. insists that doctors must run medical-care plans and patients be free to choose their own physicians, while the U.M.W. maintains that it must have the right to pick its own medicos to treat members, for whom it shelled out $60 million last year...
...Western diplomats, who frequently cable home his conclusions or his quotation of significant Communist pronouncements that he often spots in the Russian press before they are released to the world. At the few parties he attends, Zorza is often backed into corners by officials and fellow newsmen who unabashedly pick his brain. The highest compliment to his skill comes from the Russian news agency Tass, which picks up his every word and relays it promptly to Moscow...