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scription of the school's condition. Bands of pickets roamed the campus, seeking to prevent nonmilitant students from entering classrooms. Although his predecessors had been reluctant to use police to restore order, Hayakawa-backed strongly by a majority of the trustees of California's state colleges and by Governor Ronald Reagan-had no such compunction. On Tuesday, police arrested 32 protesters, ten of whom were injured in a melee; two days later, 23 more were carted off to jail. The maintenance of order was helped by a Committee for an Academic Environment, organized by proadministration students. Wearing blue...
...nation's first scholarly art magazine in 1913. When New York art collector Lee Ault took it over in 1957, the magazine's circulation was down to a floundering 1,300. Ault poured in capital and promotion expertise, enlarged the format to 9 by 12 made liberal use of four-color repro -ductions and attracted new advertisers and readers. Today the magazine has a circulation of 41,000, healthy for a fine-arts publication...
Cure: Love. By happenstance, Chuck discovers "a way to be thought better of. The key to his modest pad may unlock an executive suite for him. Commuting senior executives with one night of illicit in-town love on their agendas barter promises of future advancement for the use of his apartment. One night Chuck finds the girl (Jill O'Hara) he worships in the bed he rarely makes. She has taken an overdose of sleeping pills after discovering the perfidy of the company Don Juan. Cure: the love of a good -well, fairly good...
...TECHNOLOGY. U.S. technological superiority means less than before. Lawrence Fox, a high official of the Commerce Department, observes that "foreigners today can either buy, lease or steal American research advances." Li censing of foreign manufacturers is rising. Last week, for example, B.F. Goodrich licensed Tokyo's Mitsubishi to use a vinyl-chloride chemical process, for which the Japanese firm will build a whole new plant...
...Nixon's economists go, McCracken leans slightly to the left. But he can hardly be considered doctrinaire. He will likely recommend the use of the same tax-and-monetary tools relied on by the New Economists, but more sparingly. He believes that the Democrats have thoroughly mismanaged the economy, particularly by relying too much on changes in tax rates to "tune" the state of business. The current 10% tax surcharge helped convince him that tax increases are not only difficult to ram through a constituent-minded Congress but usually have slow effects when finally enacted. "We are beginning...