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Known to his Westwood staff as "the super chief," Murphy divides his twelve-hour day between campus work and a host of extracurricular duties, including board membership on the Ford Motor Co., the McCall Corp. and the Menninger Foundation. Art Collector Murphy is also on the board of the National Gallery of Art. With all this activity, there are bound to be some student murmurs about absenteeism in the front office, but the chancellor is such a familiar sight on campus that his customary outfit of blue blazer and grey flannel slacks is known as "the Murphy uniform." Murphy seldom...
...with Berkeley at about 27,500-the planned maximum. Six years ago, U.C.L.A. took in a scant $10 million in research grants; now it gets more than $36 million a year, and its annual budget has more than doubled, to $85 million. On U.C.L.A.'s sprawling campus in Westwood, 31 new buildings costing $142 million have gone up during Murphy's tenure. "Buildings don't make the university any more than clothes make the man," the chancellor says, "but in these days you can't do sophisticated research in tents...
Having grown outward, Los Angeles is now in the process of growing upward, a shift reflected in the thrusting towers near city hall and the modern, luxury high-rise apartment houses that now line the west end of Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills and Westwood. Still, for all the city's growth, there remain many areas of country living deep inside the city limits, where hills and valleys, treed lawns and wild animals abound. Patios, swimming pools-preferably in odd shapes-and private tennis courts are numerous enough to be taken for granted...
...Southern tour, the tennis team was soundly walloped by a couple of top notch teams. After an 11-10 loss to the Westwood Country Club of Richmond, Virginia, Coach Jack Barnaby split his team into two units, sending Unit A through Georgia and Unit B through the Carolinas...
...such tomes as Sexus, Nexus and Plexus, the report was an astonishing relief. "I've written everything I want to say," announced Henry Miller, 74-at long last. From now on, said Miller as he opened a show of his fanciful watercolor paintings in Los Angeles' Westwood Art Association gallery, he will chase down his muse primarily with brushes. "It seems to me that the battle for freedom on the sex problem has been won," he proclaimed. Then, in a meditation that many wish he had made years ago, he added: "I would hope that younger writers would...