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When a sudden cold spell struck the vast eucalyptus groves in the hills above Berkeley, Calif., last December, 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 of the tall trees died. Planted at the turn of the century in an ill-fated lumbering venture, the trees have now become a grave danger. Forestry and fire officials warn that the 3,000 acres of dead trees will present an unprecedented fire hazard this summer. The usual changing winds of late August and early September could fan a cigarette-or lightning-caused fire and send flames sweeping through the surrounding hills toward...
...dispute at the Institute concerns the membership of Robert N. Bellah '48, Ford Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies at Berkeley. Kaysen nominated Bellah for a one-year appointment at the Institute despite a 14-6 vote by the Institute's permanent faculty opposing the nomination...
Nationally, most of the major private institutions are experiencing increases in applications. The picture at major public universities is more uneven. Applications are up 7 per cent at the University of Iowa and 12 per cent at the University of California at Berkeley, but down 10 per cent at the University of Ilinois's Urbana campus
Kaysen supported the nomination of Robert N. Bellah '48, professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkeley, to the Institute's Social Science program. Bellah taught at Harvard from...
There were two bright spots last night in this otherwise dim prospect. One was a spin-off from Busby Berkeley's elaborate choreography, done with spinning transparent umbrellas, none the worse for having been lifted from last Fall's Exproduction of Dames At Sea. The other (and the only satire with any bite) is a runaway mix of The King and I and Chinese Revolutionary Opera called "The People's Opera Glorifying Revolutionary Heroes One-Eyed Jack and Toronto." With Red Flags and posters of Mao, it plays the stereotypes to the hilt, and with saving grace, perceptibly manages...