Word: berkeleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University of California at Berkeley (20,000), where student leaders set up petition-signing booths, predicted 5,000 signatures by this weekend. Berkeley's movement reached a high point last October when Freshman Frederick Moore Jr., pacifist son of an Air Force colonel, went on a 59-hour, anti-ROTC hunger strike, took an "honorary withdrawal" from the university...
BARBARA BAILEY MARCUS Berkeley, Calif...
...study of his home in Berkeley, Calif., snow-topped Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, soon to be 75, leafed through some historic papers dating from the days when he commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. But he made it clear that he was just browsing and not afflicted by any passion to pen his memoirs, as so many of his comrades-in-arms have done. Such books, said he, brim with "many critical remarks and self-praise at the expense of others. Any memoirs I wrote could not add historically to what has been written...
...University of California came big news: under a National Science Foundation grant of $109,980, biggest involving KQED to date, the university will help produce an eight-part series on viruses, promising money in the bank as well as prizes. The cast: Nobel Prizewinner Wendell M. Stanley, director of Berkeley's Virus Laboratory, his top aides, and as many life-and-death-affecting organisms as they can film through an electron microscope. These wonders will not be confined to loyal locals who keep KQED going 40 hours a week. KQED will sell the films to the National Educational Television...
...Francisco's prizewinning ETV Station KQED, has proved a master at lighting up the dark corners of physics for laymen. Although on leave from the university (he is boss of the AEC-University of California's Radiation Laboratory at Livermore), he volunteered to teach Berkeley's one-semester course because "it will not be a physics class but a physics-appreciation course -an appreciation of what physics is about, not a practical knowledge. When you teach music appreciation, you do not sit the student down and make him play the scales with no mistakes. You suggest...