Word: super
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Space to Think. Davis is not about to drop its super-cow-college learning. Foreign students (a high 10% of enrollment) are there mainly for that purpose. California's $3 billion-a-year farm industry still needs trained talent. But Davis now has more than twice as many liberal arts students as regular aggies. Engineering enrollment has jumped 48% in the past year. Like all Cal campuses, Davis takes only the top 12% of California high school students (out-of-staters need a B+ average). One result: a new Phi Beta Kappa chapter. Another: Cal President Clark Kerr...
...transatlantic life, the gaspy-gossipy life, which she enjoyed so much that she made lots of other people enjoy it too. She was a clown always ready and willing to take a pratfall, and she was often compared to a court jester. But Elsa was really a kind of super cruise director, working with diligence and resourcefulness to keep the passengers amused-sometimes even with each other...
...unsuccessful movie shorts in Hollywood and was in danger of sinking into an un-Maxwellian obscurity, when the postwar wave of international prosperity brought her back with a new cast of characters. Now she was a newspaper columnist, playing for an audience of millions her roles of social arbiter, super name-dropper, gossip and buffoon...
...morning of Dec. 16, 1960, a United Airlines DC-8 and a Trans World Airlines Super Constellation collided in the icy air over New York City. It was history's most disastrous air accident: all 128 persons aboard the two planes were killed...
...Conant's proposals. Both at the beginning and the end of the book he makes pious reference to public opinion and the importance of gathering informed laymen's views on teacher education. The program he designs, however, would take little note of these views; by removing extensive state super-vision of teacher training it seeks not to increase public participation, but to widen professional control to include academic faculties. This aim is unrealistic. The ultimate effect of making institutions as a whole responsible for teacher training is to increase the accountability to the public, whether by statute or custom. Before...