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Last week the S.L.A. sent out another communique boasting of a second major crime and backed up its claim with a persuasive piece of evidence. Enclosed in an S.L.A. message mailed to a Berkeley radio station was a Mobil Oil Co. credit card issued to Randolph A. Hearst, 58, chairman of the board of Hearst Corp. and the youngest son of Founder William Randolph Hearst. Sixty hours earlier Hearst's daughter Patricia, 19, a sophomore at the University of California at Berkeley, had been dragged screaming from her off-campus apartment and driven off by kidnapers...
According to police, the abduction began when Peter Benenson, a 31-year- old Berkeley mathematician, was way laid by as many as five attackers as he unloaded a car full of groceries at his home. Forcing Benenson to the back seat floor, three of the gang drove his car to the $250-a-month duplex apartment in Berkeley that Patricia shared with her fiance Steven Weed, 26, a graduate student in philosophy. A young white woman persuaded Weed to open the door so that she could report an auto accident; when he did, she and two black men barged...
BECAUSE DYLAN emerged during the peak of the civil rights movement and began to hit his stride at the time of such breakthroughs as the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, his pacifism and libertarianism were automatically identified with the left. Those were friendly days when whites still worked with SNCC and the distinction between political and cultural radicalism was hazy. Singing songs then seemed a political act --if enough people sang, blacks would withdraw have social equality, U.S. soldiers would withdraw from Vietnam. Smoke-ins looked like acts of political defiance and demonstrations liberated the spirit as much as they dramatized...
...Temple Owls later went on to defeat both Cincinnati, and the University of California at Berkeley to win the Quaker City and keep the honors in Philadelphia for the fifth straight year...
...Education Professor Staten Webster of the University of California at Berkeley sympathizes with the New York City decision. "A kid might feel bad when he doesn't get promoted," he says. "But that is better than finding that his life is ruined because he can't do anything." Furthermore, he adds, "You can't promote him simply on the theory that he is too old to keep back. To slap him into a junior high school compounds his chances of failure...