Word: berserker
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Following the Bomb's lead, other fans got hot all over and raged onto the field. The terrified ref hurriedly called the game, giving Argentina a 1-0 victory, and fled to the security of a steel-doored dressing room. At that, the entire crowd went berserk. In the center of the field, a small knot of beleaguered cops started lobbing tear-gas grenades into the onrushing mob. Trying to restore order in the upper stands, a hapless policeman was seized by his hands and feet, swung back and forth and hurled to his death on the concrete...
Sometimes, of course, things can get a bit too shippy. One Detroit adgirl still shudders at the memory of a cruise last Christmas on the Polynesia (promptly dubbed the Polynausea), which was complete with 12-ft. waves, several broken bones, plus a passenger who went berserk and jumped over the rail. On one hairy occasion, three missionaries were washed overboard, but the only passenger who seems to have been lost permanently is Miss Sara Reiser, 70, who disappeared last month during a walk on one of the Galápagos Islands-a port of call on Burke's round...
Unless some academic genius invents a substitute for grades, this generation is seemingly chained to a double life: utter classroom sobriety, relieved by afterhours explosion. Princeton, where rioters went berserk last spring, has its Saturday night "cult of the grubby"-dungareed dancers twisting in once elegant clubs. Bizarre idiocy is also prevalent. L.S.U. coeds recently launched a "drawers raid" on a men's dormitory, and two Cornell fraternity teams played a 30-hour touch football game (score: 664-538). Columbia students staged an 'all-cause" protest rally with marchers Brandishing such signs as HOOVER...
With a few minutes left in the game, a frustrated Eastern tackle, thinking he had been pushed by a St. John's player, went almost berserk and had to be restrained by three teammates There was fighting on the field for the rest of the game while St. John's cheer-leaders cried out "Back to Africa." As the game ended, several hundred Eastern fans rushed across the field and up into the St. John's section. Perhaps they meant to start a fight, or perhaps they did not. In any case, pushing matches started at the exits...
...Daphne du Maurier's story and Alfred Hitchcock's movie, The Birds, it is the birds that go berserk and attack man. Last week in New York City, it was man who, after generations of meek submission to fowl indignities, turned upon the birds. The city government was considering exterminating the pigeons that drop their excrement on park benches, statues and hurrying pedestrians. City officials are convinced at last that the pigeons - up to 5,000,000 of them, by some of the wilder estimates - are an intolerable menace to health...