Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mandrake's, the Berkeley nightclub where Joy got its real commercial start, male patrons would occasionally jump on the stage, grab the instruments from the girls and try to take over. In general, fees were lower than for comparable male groups too. For a while, it looked as if Joy of Cooking might remain one of America's thousands of unknown "party" bands. At one point, Terry and Toni were actually forced to revert to making and selling dresses to pay the rent...
...President Nixon observed last week, after the Senate had joined the House in ending further federal subsidy for the SST, that the congressional action "could be taken as a reversal of America's tradition of staying in the vanguard of scientific and technological advance." Says Paul Seabury, a Berkeley political scientist: "It is the first time in American history that a major technological innovation has been shot down...
First postulated in 1939 by Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hartland Snyder, one of his graduate students at the University of California at Berkeley, black holes are the theoretical residue of extremely massive stars whose thermonuclear fuel has been exhausted. As the fires go out, the gases-which have been supported in the shape of a huge, distended globe by heat and radiation -suddenly begin to fall inward toward the star's center of gravity. If the star is massive enough, the imploding gases gather such momentum as they fall that they virtually crush themselves out of existence...
...2/1/71, CLINTON C. GILLIAM, Registrar, UCB, advised his files indicate-was admitted to the University of California at Berkeley in the month of March, 1970, and as of the period ending December, 1970, had completed two quarters in the College of Letters and Science. Her chief subject of study is listed as-. Due to the policy at UCB, no additional information regarding the Subject can be released without the written release submitted by the Subject or the issuance of a subpoena duces tecum...
...members of the Fourth Contingent of the Venceremos Brigade. During this meeting, there was no discussion of violence or revolution. San Francisco source personally conversed with Subject and received no indication that she was anything other than the average liberal minded student that is common in the Berkeley area...