Word: westwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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U.C.L.A. runs its extension courses from its main Westwood campus, its downtown Los Angeles branch, and 50 other locations in public schools, private houses and business offices. One summer course for doctors this year will include a field trip to Japan to study the side effects of oral contraceptives. An annual management seminar draws many executives from Boston's electronics complex...
Like Broadway plays, some courses open out of town (San Diego is one try-out spot), get favorable reviews and move on to bigtime Westwood. U.C.L.A. never knows quite what to expect; adult students are no simple problem. One stiff engineering course, which meets six hours a week and requires 14 hours of homework, ran into lonely-wife trouble. Now the wives attend lectures on their husbands' professional problems, which somewhat soothes them. Hardest of all is predicting the pulling power of new courses. One lecture series on "Man and Art" was supposed to draw 36 people, wound...
...passing of the house-call,* but many a citizen counts this skid as just one more sign that doctors are cold, uncaring fellows, heartlessly indifferent to the fact that little Priscilla's forehead feels hot or Grandma's arthritis is acting up. In Medical Economics, a Westwood. N.J.. pediatrician named Phoebe Hudson scoffs at this complaint. House calls, she says, "are just a bad habit." Her reasons...
Rufus M. Perkins '62 of Leverett House and Westwood, Mass., was picked to head the skiing team next year. He replaces John C. Holden '60/61...
U.C.L.A.'s new Sproul Hall, scheduled to open this fall, was planned from the start as cohabitational. In separate wings for opposite sexes, Sproul's 400 men and 400 girls will share a beige brick nest atop a Westwood hill...