Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other recent incidents, Berkeley, Calif, demonstrators filled supermarket carts with food, then abandoned them in the store, left perishables to spoil. Militants in New York City threatened to waste water by leaving their faucets open. Negroes entered a segregated Atlanta restaurant, urinated on the floor, drew from former Atlanta Mayor William Hartsfield a stinging speech on the question: "Is Urination Nonviolent...
...University of California at Berkeley and Yale University both received 19 fellowships. Harvard was third in the nation with its total of 14. Columbia was fourth and Princeton seventh, with ten and seven grants respectively...
Bucket Brigades. The founder of ACCION is Joseph H. Blatchford, 29, an intense, athletic law graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Convinced of the need for more U.S. good will and good works in Latin America, Blatchford swung into ACCION in 1960, six months before the Peace Corps got under way. Today the organization has 30 Americans and 30 Venezuelans working in 25 slums in Caracas, Maracaibo and other cities. Typically, they win slum dwellers' confidence by organizing volleyball or baseball teams, then build a recreation area and later divide the teams into bucket brigades to clean...
Chicest at the moment is a crowded hole in Montparnasse called New Jimmy's, where Novelist Francoise Sagan and cinema's Roger Vadim, Jacques Charrier and Jane Fonda turn up to Hully Gully. London's discotheques range from the superexclusive Annabel's in Berkeley Square, where Guardsmen, debutantes and top-drawer jet-setters can order an excellent full-course dinner as late as 3 a.m., to the come-one-come-all Crazy Elephant in Jermyn Street, where the beat is blue, the mood frenetic, and the Shake is the thing...
Ingenious Solutions. Commonest solution is the annual parking fee, ranging up to $75. Other ingenious methods are being tried. To plow tax money into parking, Berkeley is building big garages roofed with tennis courts and athletic fields. To solve the land shortage (new buildings are eating up old parking lots), the University of Washington is integrating kids and cars in combined garage-dormitories. But Fordham University failed when it tried to call in the commercial Kinney System Inc. to run a $225,000 parking operation -price-protesting students chanted "Let the lot rot!" And just having rich alumni, as Harvard...