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...Decibel Gap. By contrast with Maverick Shapp, Yale-trained Attorney Shafer is a dutiful, if undistinguished, party pro; he served two terms as a state senator before running with William Scranton-who cannot succeed himself-in 1962. While Shapp is a wispy, almost Chaplinesque figure, Shafer, son of a Protestant minister, is a craggy-faced, sandy-haired, 6-ft. 2-in. ex-athlete who won nine letters at Allegheny College to go with his Phi Beta Kappa key. Lawyer Shafer is as taciturn as Tycoon Shapp is talkative. Shafer "comes on like Mount Rushmore," as one Pennsylvanian puts...
Somewhat grudgingly, Chancellor Murphy concedes that U.C.L.A.'s sister campus at Berkeley is "more prestigious"-but then he will reel off a host of statistics to prove how much the gap has narrowed. This fall, student enrollment at U.C.L.A. has finally caught up 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...
Many shadow school courses concentrate on the kind of thing that is likely to crop up in afterhours student talk, such as psychedelic drugs. Others, however, attempt to fill a genuine gap in the official university curriculum. At Cornell, where there is no religion department, undergraduates plan to offer a class in the "Death of God Theology," and Moslem students will teach Islamic culture. One Cornell professor has even signed up for a student-taught course in jazz-something unavailable at the university's own music school. At Dartmouth a fraternity is organizing a shadow school class...
...Killing of Sister Georqe, by Frank Marcus, is an abrasive English comedy of cruelty on one of comedy's classic themes-fraud. It measures the ironic gap between public appearance and private reality...
Hoping to fill this slogan-gap, I recently called on my old Madison Avenue cohort, Barton Durstine, creator of such winning catchlines as "The Edsel is eternal" and "In your heart, you know he's right...