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...field that he says, only half in jest, "I play baseball as a sideline." A typical day off begins in midmorning when Jackson climbs out of bed in his penthouse apartment overlooking downtown Oakland. (Later this year he will move into an $85,000 condominium in the Berkeley Hills.) Once he has selected the day's outfit from three oversized closets that contain 100 shirts and pairs of pants, twelve leather jackets ("I've got every color") and a dozen hats, he heads to a diner called Lois the Pie Queen for brunch...
Lois's is an Oakland institution. Straddling the racially mixed and often explosive border with Berkeley, the simple restaurant is one of the few places where black and white comfortably coexist. Jackson, a regular customer, gives Lois a friendly pat on the backside and helps himself to biscuits and milk as he waits for his usual order of pork chops, rice and scrambled eggs...
Parker Prize, Eliot Nelson '74 of Dunster House and Berkeley, Calif.; Parker Scholarship, Paul K. Rowe '75 of Leverett House and New York City and Mark E. Segall '75 of Harrison, N.Y.; Phillips Memorial Scholarship, Mitchell Dupler '75 of Leverett House and Bronxville, N.Y.; and the Saltonstall Prize, David L. Johnson '74 of Adams House and Indianapolis...
...radical, he enjoyed the endorsement of black and white community organizers alike. Indeed, the behavior of the SLA in killing Foster and kidnaping Hearst led at least one black spokesman in California to question whether the SLA was not simply exploiting DeFreeze as a figurehead. Colston Westbrook, a Berkeley linguistics instructor who met DeFreeze through the Vacaville Black Culture Association, said in April, "I think the honkies are calling the shots. [DeFreeze had] better wake...
...tried selling encyclopedias, but that lasted only a week. Meanwhile, my expectations sank lower and lower. Then I got involved in two types of contradictory work that led me to law school. For 25 hours a week I worked to help set up the People's Translation Services in Berkeley, a collective gathering leftist material from Europe and putting out a news service for under-ground newspapers. That was without pay, so for ten to fifteen hours a week I worked with an urban planner whose specialty was commercial signs: billboards, neon signs, electric lights. I worked...