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...from Cruess Hall, Dinsmoor Webb, a trained chemist, heads an even bubblier enterprise: Davis' 98-year-old program of viticulture (grape production) and oenology (winemaking technology), the foremost facility and oldest department in the country.* A diminutive figure who sports dashing mixes of plaid shirts, tweed jackets and velvet bow ties, Webb reigns over 150 grape-growing acres, 14 faculty members and 155 students, all of whom have completed chemistry, physics and engineering courses before specializing in viticulture or oenology. "I think they should have a little French," says Webb, "but we don't require a foreign language...
...publicity." If Cheryl is straining at the mooring ropes, part of the reason is that she and her husband have been working hard to produce the necessary volume of superheated publicity. An odd result is that the makers of Virginia Slims and other products that Tiegs sells, like Black Velvet Canadian whisky and Cover Girl Cosmetics, are now selling Cheryl Tiegs...
...third dance performed last week, "Fractions," luxuriates in interaction of weight and air in a velvet-soft ballon. A girl in pale green dips and winds through a solo of airy spirals, one leg curling repeatedly knee-first across her body, bobbing down and swinging out; dancers flicker through space in springboard leaps and swallow swoops; a man and a woman move in an effortless duet, their legs and arms unfurling like a sea-plant swayed by the current...
...Boswells are almost uniformly impacted with numbers purporting to measure every major, minor, relevant and irrelevant aspect of the plant. The printed record aches with such data as the number of miles of film projected yearly (5,000). the quantity of gum once scraped nightly from underneath 6,200 velvet-covered seats (20 Ibs.); the number of stops on the thundering Mighty Wurlitzer (375); the number of light bulbs (25,000); the weight of the chandeliers (two tons); and, naturally, the improbable dimensions of the stage (144 ft. wide, 67 ft. deep). But no statistic could quite translate the spectator...
That does not mean he has gone soft. A friend calls him "the velvet hammer," and Director Robert Aldrich says: "Behind that false humor arid false modesty is a bright man who's paid his dues. People think he's Charley Charm, but that's only part of it. Burt is a strongwilled, self-centered businessman; he does what serves Burt, and he should...