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...Manchester accent. She met Pinter, who himself started as an actor, while touring the provinces with a Shakespearean troupe. Their marriage in 1956 gave Pinter a sure breadwinner in the house and enabled him to try playwriting. Today they own a splendid five-story Georgian town house overlooking Regent's Park in London-the House the Absurd built...
...since the firing, Reagan calmly fielded barbed questions, insisted that the action had not been politically motivated. "I voted as one member of the board of re- gents," he said. "I would not initiate such a procedure and certainly did not feel that, in my first meeting as a regent, this was something that was properly on the agenda." Added Reagan: "This Governor has no intention of ever overruling the regents...
From previous conversations with Kerr, several of the regents had picked up the impression that he was weary of criticism and wanted his status clarified (he had not, however, sought a formal vote of confidence). Reagan's newly appointed Regent Allan Grant first suggested the firing, which was formally moved by Laurence J. Kennedy Jr., a lawyer and one of the ten regents appointed by former Governor Pat Brown. When the vote was taken, anti-Kerr ballots included those of Reagan, Oilman Edwin Pauley, Mrs. Norman Chandler and Retailer Edward Carter, who had been chairman during the time...
Lost His Cool. The truth of the matter was that neither politics nor any supposed anti-intellectual hostility on the part of the regents was the cause of the firing. In his eight years as president and six as Berkeley chancellor, well-meaning Clark Kerr had unquestionably done much for the university. He shaped California's master plan for higher education. During his tenure, student population nearly doubled (to 87,000), and Cal rose in quality to the very top rank of American institutes of higher learning. Yet when the acid test of his executive talent came, during...
...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...