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...confrontation outside the student union between a group of "Greeks" (fraternity types) and "Freaks" (members of the university's long-hair set). Six city police rolled up and soon were reinforced by nightstick-toting plainclothesmen. There followed what by most accounts was a police riot: the cops went berserk, clubbing students and bystanders indiscriminately. Among the casualties was Senior Richard Winstead, a former all-state basketball star and campus beau ideal. Strolling on the Dekehouse lawn with a date, Winstead was wrestled into some bushes and stick-whipped by policemen. Undergraduates were appalled. "You know," said one Greek...
...trippers, called the Marina del Rey incident the first documented case of mass hallucinogenic poisoning. "The frightening thing is," he adds, "that it could happen again." These days, if an American escapes being hijacked in an airplane, mugged in the street or sniped at by a man gone berserk, he apparently still runs the risk of getting accidentally zonked by the hors d'oeuvres at a friendly neighborhood cocktail party...
...THERE is any part of University policy where it is easy for critics to go berserk, it is the area of University investments. Given the present goals and practices of American business, as well as the present purposes for which the government awards many contracts, it would be hard to find a single large company that is not engaged in some sort of objectionable activity. An institution like Harvard-with more than a billion dollars to invest somewhere -is almost inevitably bound to embrace a few of the corporate ogres somewhere in its stock portfolio...
...million. Now Ryder's primary job will be to cut the publishing company's losses and mesh the disparate parts of the sprawling enterprise. Cudlipp will remain as a deputy chairman and editorial director. "There will be editorial freedom," says Ryder, "but if somebody goes berserk and the profits of the group are threatened, we will intervene...
...Paul Dooley, Andrew Duncan and Anthony Holland. Holland, in particular, has been an off-Broadway delight for several years. His knees sag with melancholy. He can throw himself on a chair as limply as a discarded bath towel and rise from it with the agitated wiriness of a berserk coat hanger. Perhaps all he needs to be truly discovered is to have Neil Simon see the show, as he did Jimmy Coco's, and then build a surefire comedy around...