Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leverett soccer team defeated Eliot 2 to 0 yesterday in the championship playoff, and earned the right to meet Yale's Berkeley College in the inter-college game tomorrow afternoon...
Besides the Winthrop-Calhoun title game, soccer and touch football championships will be contested between the Houses and Colleges. Leverett, winner of the soccer playoff with Eliot yesterday, will play Berkeley...
Died. August Vollmer, 79, pioneer in the use of modern U.S. police methods, professor of police administration (1932-37) at the University of California; by his own hand after he told his housekeeper: "I'm going to shoot myself; call the Berkeley police"; in Berkeley, Calif. As Berkeley police chief (1905-32), Vollmer perfected fingerprinting, handwriting analysis and traffic-control techniques, used the new lie detector, was first to put all the cops on the force into cars (earlier he had put them on bicycles), later reorganized the police departments of Los Angeles, Detroit, Havana...
...meeting in honor of Robert Gordon Sproul's 25th year as president of the University of California, his second in command at Berkeley, Chancellor Clark Kerr, announced some cheery, silver-anniversary news. A wealthy banker, who insisted on remaining anonymous, has bequeathed the university $2,750,000 to start an Institute for Basic Research in Science with much the same sort of ideals as those of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Its main purpose: "to discover and encourage the work of individuals of great talent and promise...
Across the bay in Berkeley, at U. of C.'s Donner Laboratory, Dr. John Gofman is the nation's outstanding worker with cholesterol and the substances with which it combines in the body. Researcher Gofman and his colleagues examined the combinations in which cholesterol circulates. It enters the bloodstream combined with proteins of different kinds. Cholesterol molecules in the combinations known as alpha-lipoproteins are generally of high density and seem relatively little involved in disease; the beta-lipoproteins contain the fat and flabby cholesterol molecule that is clearly implicated in atherosclerosis...