Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember in April when he came to Keuka. We were having an anti-Administration sit-in in the hallway outside the President's office. He popped up, said he was from S.D.S., and showed us a film right there in the hall about the Berkeley riots. We acknowledged the presence of this outsider probably because he was cute and Keuka's an all-girls school! He kept saying that we'd never get our list of demands met if we didn't use violence. He was probably right, but being girls, we were scared of flying...
Pilot Syndrome. O'Leary was an unlikely candidate from the start. He was a civilian. He was myopic ("Astronauts don't wear glasses, and there I was wearing glasses"). His personality smacked more of Berkeley than of Houston. Nevertheless, at 27, a Ph.D. in astronomy and a skilled mountain climber, he was selected as a member of the sixth space-training program, the second group of scientist-astronauts. He resigned after seven months' intensive training because, ha decided, he wanted to go to the moon, not spend his time training to fly T-38 jets...
President Nixon's special adviser on campus unrest denied Wednesday that he had told Nixon that Berkeley and Columbia had been destroyed by student unrest...
Heard said he had called officials at Columbia and Berkeley to assure them that he would not name the two schools in his report...
Holder Molecules. To confirm his hypothesis, Koshland and two young Berkeley colleagues-Dan R. Storm and Kenneth Neet-devised an experiment of classical simplicity. It involved the common chemicals ethyl alcohol and acetic acid, which, in the presence of a catalyst, quickly combine to form an aromatic compound called ethyl acetate (without a catalyst, the reaction occurs very slowly). Instead of using standard catalysts, however, the scientists chemically locked both molecules into various synthetic ring-shaped, larger molecules called "holders," which are in effect chemical vises. After many attempts, they hit upon a holder that gripped the ethyl alcohol...