Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berkeley, Calif...
...estimable demonstration of adversarial skills. But there was considerably less in this argument than met the ear. "Most dubious," said Harry Kalven Jr. of the University of Chicago, adding that the Wilson thesis amounts to a "wildcat discretion incompatible with the intentions of the Constitution." Berkeley's Sanford Kadish emphatically agreed: "That kind of thinking comes from the medieval doctrine that the king can do no wrong...
Died. Dr. Hans Albert Einstein, 69, son of the late famed physicist, and a professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was best known for his researches into the transportation of sediment in flowing water; following a heart attack; in Falmouth, Mass...
...manic heyday of protest, California students were among the most demonstrative. They burned down the Bank of America at Isla Vista and brought out the National Guard five times. Berkeley, cradle of Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement, was especially volatile. In 1968 the Berkeley authorities installed Willis A. Shotwell as a full-time disciplinarian to deal with demonstrators...
THESE RADICAL BLUEPRINTS are based on nationalization of the large corporations. The models for a post-revolutionary economy include the Berkeley food co-op and the Tennessee Valley Authority--which, states Domhoff, "has allowed the beginnings of the sane, productive and beautiful development of at least one-river region in our country"--although the TVA is actually one of the most important and most incorrigible polluters in the Tennessee Valley...