Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Superintendent Wilson, former dean of the University of California School of Criminology in Berkeley, moved swiftly to meet minority groups' complaints. Even as Mayor Daley fulminated darkly against "outsiders" who had stirred up the trouble, Wilson called on more Puerto Ricans to join the department, appointed a Negro commander to oversee a prime Negro trouble spot, and ordered the immediate integration of all two-man patrol cars...
Like their counterparts at Berkeley, the Provos (provokers) of Amsterdam are always good for a chuckle. A well-organized group of young artists, writers, intellectuals and university students, they are opposed to just about everything. They have urged the government to paint all Amsterdam chimneys white to eliminate smoke and soot. They have also printed dynamite recipes for anyone interested in blowing up the burgomaster's house. When Crown Princess Beatrix married West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg last March, they threatened to spike the city's water supply with LSD and stampede the horse-drawn wedding coach...
...colleges as a .400 batting average is in pro baseball. Nonetheless, Daisy's achievement was matched by other summa cum laudes at major universities in the class of '66. Bruce A. Wooley, a University of California electronics engineering student, racked up three years of 4.0 at Berkeley after an unblemished year at the University of Arizona. Thomas J. Messenger had perfect marks as a physical chemistry major at the University of Michigan. Air Force Veteran George Chartier, a 30-year-old psychology major, completed straight-A work at the University of Illinois' Urbana campus. So did David...
...Secrets. How did they do it? "I just do the work until it's done," says Berkeley's Wooley. Daisy Hilse found no short cuts, employed no secrets. She took copious notes in her lectures, concentrated only on "doing well." She studied hard, but never past midnight, because "I get too tired." Her string of A's actually worried her, since "grade-grubbing is not a particularly healthy attitude toward education." She con fesses that she "might have been relieved if I had gotten...
...Elisworth of Guilford, Conn. (Social Relations); Dana Smith Eisbree of Libonier, Pa. (Government); Penny Hollander Feldman of Silver Springs, Md. (Government); Sheila L. Grinnell of Bronx, N.Y. (English); Joan M. Helpern of New York City (Social Relations); Martha J. Kaplan of Perth Amboy, N.J. (Government); and Sydney Key of Berkeley, Calif, (Economics...