Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chavez maintained the appearance of a strike by gathering outside volunteers to man the picket lines. Most of these were college students belonging to the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee and the Students for a Democratic Society. The farmworkers, however, continued working...
Anti-War. Brown dallied with the idea of becoming a psychiatrist, but ended up majoring in Latin and Greek at the University of California in Berkeley. In 1964, he graduated from Yale Law School, and eventually joined the prestigious Los Angeles law firm of Tuttle & Taylor. But there were always some things about law that bothered him. Says Pat Brown: "He isn't comfortable with the fact that much of the law is based on adversary relationships rather than the search for truth...
...ambition to become a concert violinist. His writing talent surfaced at the University of Buffalo. One of his admirers is another musician-writer, the ranking wizard of experimental fiction, John Barth. After sampling the edges of New York literary life in the early '60s, Reed headed west to Berkeley where he teaches writing at the University of California and is a partner in a new publishing company that supports young talent...
...handling problems ranging from marijuana busts to landlord-and-tenant quarrels. In Columbus, Ohio, members of Local 423 of the Laborers' International Union can get everything from divorces and wills to real estate closings paid for by union legal insurance. Shoppers at a large food cooperative in Berkeley, Calif., can climb to the second floor, put down a $25 annual premium and receive a limited number of cut-rate consultations with lawyers at the co-op's affiliate, Consumers' Group Legal Services...
...Singing and dancing with Judy Garland and Gene Kelly. Co-starring California's then-future, now-former senator. Directed by Busby Berkeley...