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...Systems is now quoted at $44.25, an increase of 127% since it went public in September, and Magnuson Computer is up 115% from its original price of $20. Oil and gas issues are also popular. Cheyenne Resources is up 738% since its February offering at $1 a share, and Saxon Oil has jumped to $35.75, an increase of 43%, just since Thanksgiving. Other winners are medical technology companies such as Genentech or Gamma Biologicals, which makes a serum for determining blood type. It closed last week at $15.12, up 163% from the offering price...
...school's laid-back image has lately begun to work against it. Students today are reluctant to confront graduate schools and employers with unconventional college grade transcripts. As a result, enrollment at Santa Cruz began to slip after reaching 6,134 in 1976. Last year U.C. President David Saxon warned that the campus would have to trim its faculty unless enrollment rose significantly by 1983. This year the student body is up to 6,472 but that figure includes 460 students who wanted to go to the University of California at Berkeley and came to U.C.S.C. only because they...
...most compulsive of these, the publication this month of the 20-volume sixth edition of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (Macmillan Publisher's Ltd.) is a great event. Since 1890 Grove has been the last word on music, at least in the Anglo-Saxon world. The initial edition was titled A Dictionary of Music and Musicians by Eminent Writers, English and Foreign. The word "foreign" was a bit patronizing; of the 118 contributors listed in that four-volume edition, 102 were British. This reflected the insular judgment of the founding editor, a nonmusician named George Grove...
...Many, in fact. I continually find parallels between football and Anglo-Saxon Poetry. The Battle of Maudlin and what we do on the field are often similar. It's always a question of grace under pressure. Other times, however, I am aware of the incongruity of it all--it's lonely sometimes to be the only Senior Common Room member out there on the field...
...outfit that in 1916 chased Pancho Villa across Mexico. The horses were replaced by tanks in 1942, but a certain amount of cavalry elan persists. Thoughts of home and work are replaced by simpler concerns -food, a cigarette, a breakdown ahead. Vocabularies slide easily into the four-letter Anglo-Saxon mode. At dusk, when the group rolls into Fort Drum, the barracks area is like a class reunion as men greet one another after a year apart...