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...yard freestyle Kaufmann matched Bruce Hunter's varsity record of 21.9 (a national intercollegiate mark until only last year) and eclipsed the old pool record of 22.2. Sophomore Dennis Hunter, who missed second place by a touch, finished a scant tenth of a second behind his brother's pool mark. Kaufmann added another pool record to his list in the 100, with a time of 49.0, tying the old mark set by former Harvard captains Dyer and Hunter...
...starting classes added to the remnants of the first, Oakland's enrollment has now grown to 1,017 and its young faculty (average age: 34) has risen from 25 to 54 members, 90% of them with Ph.D.s. Last fall the trimester system was adopted, allowing a scant seven weeks of vacation (v. 19 at most colleges) and permitting graduation in 2⅔ years. Last week Chancellor Durward Varner jauntily described his school as "a compact model which provides a rich intellectual experience...
Dino de Laurentiis smiles indulgently at such Hollywood efforts as George Stevens' The Greatest Story Ever Told (scheduled for production this spring and summer), which will run a scant three hours. The Bible, which will go before the cameras next year, will be shown to audiences in three segments, two for the Old Testament, one for the New. Roughly a dozen directors will work on the picture. None are signed yet, but De Laurentiis thinks Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita) might get things off to a rousing start with the Creation. He is saving Ingmar Bergman for the Apocalypse...
...Scottish Inventor William McWhirter, who built the first in dicating voltmeter and ammeter. At ten, the twins' favorite reading was Whitaker's Almanack; in the ensuing 26 years, they have added to their fund of statistics at Maryborough and Oxford, and as newsmen in London. In a scant 16 weeks, the McWhirters finished the book, and in the process they found an alibi for Sir Hugh: some game birds, they discovered, fly at a hard-to-hit 72 m.p.h...
...doubtful that Angelenos, who have never demanded an outstanding newspaper, will complain either about the loss of two papers or the caliber of the survivors. The chief mourners last week were the staffs of the two foundered dailies-400 on the Mirror, 1,000 on the Examiner-who, with scant notice, faced the bleak prospect of looking for other jobs in a diminished market. The Chandlers were ordering the dismissal of a handful of Times staffers to make room for the handful of Mirror people marked for salvage. Hearst hastily formed an "employment exchange" which was designed to land...