Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President Johnson ordered U.S. planes to bomb oil-storage depots near Hanoi and Haiphong. The Russians tried to make political capital out of the bombings by canceling a track meet with the "aggressor" U.S., and the Poles followed suit. So last week's Poland-U.S. meet at Berkeley, Calif., became an All-American meet instead, and the mile race was substituted for a 1,500-meter event. The "rabbits" were Jim's competitors-Richard Romo of Texas, Tom Von Ruden of Oklahoma State, and Wade Bell of Oregon-who got together before the race, agreed to help...
Rumors that a record attempt was in the offing brought 15,000 spectators to Berkeley's Edwards Track Stadium, and most of them were on their feet when Von Ruden and Romo, setting the early pace, zipped past the quarter-mile mark in 57.7 sec., with Ryun patiently running a close-up third. Romo passed the lead to Bell during the second quarter; the half-mile time was 1 min. 55.4 sec. In the third lap, Ryun outran his rabbits. He flashed past Romo-"running like a bull," said Romo later-took off after Bell, and with...
...president to speak at Academic Senate meetings and putting three students on an Academic Senate committee. And it was also the faculty who appointed the Muscatine committee on educational reform-at the suggestion of then Acting Chancellor Martin Meyerson, in March 1965, six months before Heyns took over at Berkeley...
ALLAN A. METCALF Daily Californian Berkeley...
...disruptive one in families abroad, where the desire of youths to imitate their freer American counterparts may run smack up against an authoritarian family structure. When Free University of Berlin students recently staged a sit-in, they asked an American visitor: "Is this the way they did it in Berkeley...