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Died. Norvell Gillespie, 59, horticulturist and former garden editor (Sunset magazine, Better Homes and Gardens, San Francisco Chronicle) who designed the jungle camouflage uniforms worn by American G.I.s in the Pacific during World War II; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif...
...immediate issue is whether Sociologist Robert N. Bellah, 46, a professor at Berkeley, is worthy of being named to the institute's permanent faculty. Sociologists Talcott Parsons and David Riesman of Harvard, where Bellah once taught, consider him an "extraordinary" scholar in his field, the sociology of religion. Now, however, he is caught in a contest between the "hard" scientists in mathematics at the institute and the "softer" social scientists. The real issue is only partly his credentials as a scholar: the larger question is who will chart the institute's future...
Uncle Vanya. A new production of Chekhov's play, opening tomorrow at the Boston Repertory Theater, Marlboro and Berkeley...
Presently coach at the University of California at Berkeley, Gladstone finished four years as lightweight coach at Harvard last spring with a perfect 16-0 varsity record. Capturing the Jope Cup, symbolic of Eastern lightweight supremacy, four consecutive times, his teams consistently had little trouble in sailing by their opposition...
...there, the ground is covered by as much as 50 tons of debris per acre. In strong winds on a hot day, the duff could burn so furiously that huge updrafts of air would be created as the fire sought oxygen to feed itself. In such an event, says Berkeley Forestry Professor Harold Biswell, "we might have a fire storm that would literally suck roofs off houses...