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Fandango. No public campus in the country has moved faster in that direction than California's Berkeley, the Buckingham Palace of Clark Kerr's empire, across the bay from San Francisco. Few campuses boast an odder beginning. Berkeley's impecunious parent was a Congregationalist academy launched in 1853 by a Yale clergyman from Massachusetts. The campus was a fandango dance hall, but Founder Henry Durant in a letter home glowed over the "beauty and salubrity" of the place. He hoped to educate gold miners, and believed in looking on the bright side...
...spend too much time with the moral considerations.'' One appliance company bought a distributor company, then gave its franchise to a company set up by one of its top executives. It tacitly agreed to buy his stock back when it had risen, thanks to business from the parent company, thus enabling the executive to take his salary in capital gains...
Even these moments were tinged with unreality. The egg-thrower, despicable as his act was (he hurled the missile and then dashed out an exit) is not the real enemy of disarmament--nor are his parent right-wing organizations. These people are easy to spot and easy to dislike, but they exert little direct influence over national policy and their mood scarcely reflects the temper of the nation...
...early campaigning was his dullness. Stolid and rigid, with cold blue eyes and a piping voice that made him sound slightly ridiculous, he left his audiences unimpressed. In midcampaign, however, he switched tactics. He struggled to lower his voice a few notes, assumed the role of a wise parent, and at the same time began pepping up his campaign with vicious personal attacks on Quadros. He called Quadros everything from insane to dictatorial, said that Quadros' election would lead to bloody civil war, charged that Quadros was trying to buy the election with a slush fund provided by foreign...
...settings for application of such knowledge and skills." Adds Cornell's Dr. McDermott: "To reduce pollution significantly would require changes in our personal habits and costly changes for our industry and our Government. It is pointless to search for a culprit in this situation. Unlike the veteran parent, we cannot say simply, 'I don't care who did it-you pick it up.' We must all pick it up together...