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Focuses on the contents of papers and letters discovered in the library of the University of California, regarding atomic bomb tests in 1946 on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. Name of the person who discovered the papers; Status of the participants in Bikini tests as revealed in the paper; Code name for the nuclear tests; Details of various aspects of the Bikini tests.

The recent news that the University of California (UC) admitted fewer African-American and Latino students into this fall's freshman class than it had in 1997 provoked a wave of alarmist headlines and editorials that mirrored the worst fears of opponents of the victorious Proposition 209, passed two years ago. Prop 209, prohibits public universities from considering race in their admissions decision. National news coverage focused on the precipitate drop of 57 percent and 36 percent in black and Latino admissions at, respectively, University of California, in Los Angeles, California and in Berkeley, California--the two flagship campuses of the system. The top level of California's public higher education system, UC has always been the destination for only a very select group of students. On average, fewer than a quarter of California students in four-year colleges attend the University of California. Despite the outcry, post-209 admissions data don't highlight gross racial inequity at the University of California.

Charles Johnston Hitch was named president-elect of the University of California, Los Angeles in California. It was an ingenious try, but there is little mystery about Hitch, about his selection, or even about why the "mystery man" appellation was thought up. For eight months a Board of Regents subcommittee had searched in vain for a new president to replace Clark Kerr, not a single figure with national standing being willing to accept the post after the way Kerr was fired. On September 19, 1967 meeting at UCLA, the Regents committee decided to give up the hunt and settle for the university's Vice President for Administration, who had come to University Hall in September, 1965, as Vice President for Business and Finance.

The article discusses matters related to society and world politics. Trygve R. Tholfson, for five years an assistant college teachers of history at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, California, has been fired, Next fall, Tholfson would be an associate college teacher at the University of Louisiana, a rise in rank that, among other things, gives him tenure. So this is not an occasion to bewail the professor's misfortunes. It may, however, be an occasion to commiserate with students at UCLA. On hearing of the administration's action, senior students in the history department circulated a petition attesting to Tholfson's excellence as a teacher.