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...University, in the Midwest, so well organized, smoothly operated and rigidly controlled, that the Authorized National Academic Limelighter on Campus, "The Scribbler's Club," was unable to find a Fault for correction or a Correction to Fault. Club Members, though deeply shamed by the notorious Obscurity of their staid University, were helpless to bring Fame...
...money, and his personal fortune amounts to about $140 million. Still a bachelor at 42, Cornfeld is a bizarre figure, part Peter Pan and part Midas. His days and nights are packed with people, planes, horses, telephone calls, travel and parties. Everywhere he goes, even to address staid bankers, some of his girls accompany him. Cornfeld is ordinarily as mild-mannered and soft-spoken as a shoe clerk, but he can break abruptly into profane rages. His informality prompts all of his employees to call him Bernie. But Cornfeld's financial trailblazing has altered the investment climate of Europe...
...years have now turned skeptics into believers. Scientists have not only uncovered the basic mechanism that moves continents, but are becoming increasingly convinced that it provides explanations of many fundamental mysteries about the earth. What causes earthquakes? How are mountain ranges formed? The answers have thoroughly jolted the once staid earth sciences. "It's a revolution," says Oceanographer Melvin Peterson of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "We are riding the crest of a breaking wave...
...past than anticipating surprises. Could all these trends that seem to lead from the '60s to the '70s be reversed? Certainly. After all, the heady air of freedom in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I was suddenly stifled by the Puritan Revolution in England, and staid Victorian laws followed the carefree boisterous spirit of the Regency. It may be that the early '70s will see a period of repressive reaction against the Dionysian tendencies of the young. There may also be a purely spontaneous swing back to discretion and suggestion. "Writers and film makers," predicts Arthur...
...swashbuckling port city that reflected equally the liberal influence of Europe and the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S.; hence the light touch of cosmopolitanism that suffuses the town. Those who populated the rolling, semitropical south?especially in the years during and following World War II?were mostly the staid Midwesterners and Southerners who came to buy so many square feet of sunshine, and the blue-collar workers who filled the factories; hence the heavy strain of conservatism that characterizes the region. The third state, running the length of inland California, is largely agricultural and might as well be East Texas...