Word: berserked
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...Angeles ghetto of Watts went berserk in 1965 after an unemployed high school dropout named Marquette Frye was arrested for drunken driving. In six days of rioting, 35 died, 900 were injured. In 1966, the Cleveland ghetto of Hough erupted when a white bartender denied a glass of ice water to a Negro patron. And in Newark, N.J., a trumpet-playing Negro cab driver by the name of John Smith last week became the random spark that ignited the latest-and one of the most violent-of U.S. race riots...
...Then the boy was laying on the sidewalk. Mr. Bain was kicking him in the face. He was bleeding about the nose and mouth." Turner said that he also saw Jerome Shaw smash the windows of a car with a pick handle, recounted other scenes of men gone berserk...
...effect, makes the whole shebang a stable flying gyroscope. The concept-rigid blades attached directly to the rotor shaft-was tried and dropped in the '20s; experimenters found that when they tilted the rotor to change direction, the whirling blades would tumble their machines like a gyroscope gone berserk. Ever since, helicopter makers have sacrificed simplicity and speed by using flexible rotor blades mounted on heavy, complex hinges. Lockheed picked up the all-but-forgotten rigid-rotor idea in 1957-and found a way to handle it: the pilot's stick tilts only a small control rotor mounted...
...Berserk Over Boys. A minority of students at single-sex schools seems to agree. "I like going around looking grubby all week long," says one Vassar student. "If women were around all the time," says a Princeton sophomore, "I wouldn't get anything done-I'd be spending just about all my time with them." Barnard College Junior Jean McKenzie, who has taken some courses at nearby Columbia, argues that "in mixed classes you don't really get a mixed point of view; the men talk, and the women listen...
...coed schools is strong evidence, to many college educators, that students today are generally disenchanted with a single-sex school. Jennifer McMurray, who switched from Georgia's all-girl Agnes Scott College to coed Emory, insists that "at Scott, when you got out into the world you went berserk," while at Emory, "I act more ladylike-even my language is better." At Christian College, a women's school in Columbia, Mo., Student Susan Hoffman declares: "Girls' schools retard, stunt and warp your social growth and maturity. Every time you see a boy, it takes about a week...