Word: berge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise rescue of Mrs. Kearns, a Times Square regular, was accomplished with the aid of a police device that some zealous civil libertarians call "Big Brother" and that Police Lieut. Ira Berg describes as the "good shepherd tending his sheep." It is a TV eye that relentlessly scans round the clock for any sign of crime. One camera sweeps the Times Square area; two other stationary cameras provide a picture of the south-side of 45th Street west of Broadway, which is a big street for theaters, and a fourth is aimed at Shubert Alley paralleling Broadway...
...first flicker of something going wrong. He can phone a squad car that will appear on the scene in as little as 30 seconds, or he can rush out himself to nab a thug, as Patrolman Jim Ray did in the case of Mrs. Kearns. Says Lieut. Berg: "It is as if we provide a cop at every door where the camera goes...
...reaction to Kohoutek is also taking more metaphysical forms. A militant Jesus cult called the Children of God, which claims a worldwide membership, is convinced that the comet is an omen of disaster and is directly predicting doomsday ("Forty days," warns the group's leader "Moses David" Berg, and "Nineveh shall be destroyed!"). A different alarm is sounded by the Italian parapsychologist Astaroth, 52 (real name: Claudio Giannantonio), who counsels members of the Rome political and movie set. Astaroth explains that comets disrupt the "psychomagnet-ic equilibrium" of the planetary system. He adds: "Human beings will be drawn...
Blayne Heckel led a Crimson sweep in the pole vault, clearing 14 ft. 6 in. Don Berg and Steve Hanes both vaulted 14 ft. to place second and third...
...captain Jim Kliegar vaulted to 16 ft., only six inches shy of his indoor high. Blayne Heckel and Don Berg followed Kliegar's winning example gaining second and third honors in the pole vault event...