Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Over the Fourth of July weekend, several hundred street people in Berkeley marched up Telegraph Avenue after a rally, breaking windows, smashing parking meters, looting a jewelry store and nearly overturning a new Buick from a dealer's lot. They were in for a surprise. Only 14 cops showed up to deal with the mob, armed with something new: large-bore guns that fire five wooden plugs from a single cartridge. The plugs spread out and tumble in flight...
...Berkeley police are delighted with their new gadget, which they bought after reading reports that their Hong Kong colleagues had used it successfully in riot control. It is cheap and effective: each shell costs only $7.50. Four were fired at the Fourth of July crowd, dispersing it immediately for a total outlay of $30. "In the past," says Lieut. Ralph Schillinger, "we have fired as much as $6,000 worth of tear gas in one day and still not stopped a riot." The plugs have one other advantage over tear-gas canisters. They are too light to cause any injury...
...June primaries, the students' scorecard showed only one clear victory, that of Ron Dellums, a radical black congressional candidate from Berkeley. However, more than 300 students helped in the Westchester County, N.Y., campaign of Ogden Reid, an antiwar Republican, and his staff called their aid "crucial" in the narrow victory he won for renomination...
Once he invented something other people actually used. It was part of a complex brain-surgery device for scientists at Berkeley, which enabled an electronic needle to enter a chicken's brain and reach its hypothalamus with out killing the chicken. "It worked so well I had chickens laying double eggs, eating their heads off, or not eating at all. They could have created monster chickens with my instrument," Karl says proudly...
...repeat patronage, de Renzy shoots a new 90-minute picture every month or so, and his cinematic technique is improving with practice. At first his stars were prostitutes, but he now casts only amateurs, generally hippies; he gets them for $50 a picture through an ad in the underground Berkeley Barb...