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...Angeles school system, which needs-and builds-14 new class rooms a week, pays the highest teacher salaries (average: $8,800) of any major U.S. school system. State-supported U.C.L.A. has become a topnotch school with less fuss and furor than Berkeley, and the privately endowed University of Southern California has evolved from a mere football school into a respected seat of learning. In fact, Los Angeles now has a higher-education complex that rivals the Boston area. And the Los Angeles Times, under the guiding hand of Otis Chandler, 38, has put away its stuffiness and now provides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Magnet in the West | 9/2/1966 | See Source »

...boss before: 20 months ago he overthrew a civilian President, promised that elections would follow. As the campaign began, he made it clear that he was his own favorite candidate. To improve his image he shed one of his wives, toned down his mercurial ways, and surrounded himself with topnotch advisers. Over the months, he went on to build a reputation as a firm-minded reformer by cleaning up the Communist-run tin union and creating a rare political stability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bolivia: Prepared for the Worst | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

...DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen Maclnnes. Master Spywriter Maclnnes again pits an innocent and firm-chinned hero against a murderous crew of spies, and again the result is a topnotch suspense tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 29, 1966 | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen MacInnes. Master Spywriter MacInnes again pits an innocent and firm-chinned hero against a murderous crew of international spies, and still again the result is a literate and topnotch suspense tale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Apr. 22, 1966 | 4/22/1966 | See Source »

...Columbia). From the first brassy challenge to fate to the booming triumph of the finale, Eugene Ormandy sweeps grandly through the Fourth Symphony, pulling from the Philadelphia Orchestra its famed bold and burnished sound. Nor does he slight the plaintive moments, or the whimsical. Ormandy has already made topnotch recordings of Tchaikovsky's Fifth and Sixth, and the three performances are now available as a package...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Feb. 25, 1966 | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

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