Word: berkeley
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Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and California at Berkeley tried to gnaw into the lead, but the Huskies grimly hung on. At 1500 meters the Crimson nosed ahead of California by two seats while still three-quarters of a length behind Washington. Harvard skidded to fourth again in the last 20 strokes as the Californians drove past them by two seats...
DIED. Malvina Reynolds, 77, spirited folk singer and protest songwriter whose gently satirical tune Little Boxes brought "ticky tacky" into the language in the early 1960s ("Little boxes on the hillside, / Little boxes made of ticky tacky"); of kidney disease; in Berkeley. Calif. A self-described "working-class woman" with a Ph.D. in philology and folklore, Reynolds found callings in journalism, socialism and teaching before writing songs for folkie friends Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, who recorded her eloquent ban-the-bomb elegy What Have They Done to the Rain...
...Fantasticks. You can see this play Thursday night, or Wednesday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday night, at Stage 2 in the Charles Playhouse. You may also want to see Much Ado About Nothing Wednesday or Friday at 8 p.m. at the Boston Shakespeare Company Theater, located at the corner of Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Boston...
Richard Erickson, a doctoral candidate at Berkeley, has accepted an offer for an assistant professorship in the Economics Department, Dwight H. Perkins, chairman of the department, said yesterday...
Erickson specializes in econometrics and economic planning, particularly Soviet economic planning. This background is unusual, Roy Radner, Harvard's visiting Taussig Research Professor and Erickson's thesis adviser at Berkeley, said yesterday. Mathematical theory is usually applied to western economies. he added...