Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed eight members of Berkeley's radical Left, last Thursday, to give testimony about their Vietnam protest activities...
...protesters being subpoenaed included: four members of the Vietnam Day Committee in Berkeley, a member of SDS who helped organize the attempt to block troop trains, a faculty advisor to the Fair Play for Cuba Committee, the Chairman of the VDC anti-draft committee, and two others who have been involved in sending medical supplies to North Vietnam...
Above all, L'Équipe is thorough. To cover the World Cup soccer tournament, which ended last week in England (see SPORT), the paper sent over 13 reporters, three cartoonists and four photographers. When U.S. Miler Jim Ryun recently set a new world record in Berkeley, Calif., L'Équipe ran his picture on the front page under a banner headline; inside, the paper devoted the better part of a page to a description of his feat, and postrace interviews with Ryun and ex-Record Holders Michel Jazy and Roger Bannister. "I doubt," boasts L'Équipe...
...Berkeley Geography Professor James Parsons and Graduate Student William Bowen report in the Geographical Review that the area once may have supported as many as 80,000 people, a vastly greater aboriginal population than has ever before been attributed to such an American tropical lowland. The discovery, they write, "opens a Pandora's box of questions relating to cultural origins." To which Parsons adds, "The discovery might even have implications of transpacific migration...
...Berkeley (Calif.) Barb is an eight-to twelve-page weekly, less than a year old, with a circulation of 7,500. Says the Barb's bearded editor, Max Scherr, 50, a local bohemian of long standing: "I'm interested in all the little movements that are divergent from the mainstream of the culture." Scherr also admits-reluctantly-that sex and radical anti-Viet Nam articles are what sell his paper. Radical is the word. Wrote a Barb columnist known only as "The Roving Rat Fink," after President Johnson's recent speech in Omaha: "Never before...