Word: cal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...apartment in Brooklyn: her father, Herbert Aptheker, is the American Communist Party's leading theoretician. Bettina went through the public schools without notable ostracism, although in the sixth grade one teacher "was very nasty because my father was a Communist" and "turned all her prejudices on me." At Cal, she has repeatedly marched, protested and demonstrated, getting arrested twice. She was a top leader of last year's Free Speech Movement, which, in the memorable words of Student Leader Mario Savio,* forced education at Berkeley to "grind to a halt." The movement foundered last spring after some...
...evening, three or more exile gunboats-each painted a glossy white, showing red and green running lights and flying the Cuban flag-approached Havana in arrowhead formation. By midnight, the exiles had reached the city without so much as a challenge, broke out 20-mm. cannon and .50-cal. machine guns, and raised havoc along the waterfront for half an hour...
Although he stressed healing the town-gown split in the City's weal-thier sections, he played it down elsewhere. "I was caught in a bind," he explains. "I'm on record as dedicated to breaking down the resentment, but I want to get elected." For both politi- cal and ideological reasons he is unwilling to abandon CCA endorsement, yet friends say it hurt him significantly in the traditionally non-CCA areas in which he grew up or has strong ties. "No one was willing to tell me this before the election," he muses...
...Herbert Summers turned from his career in mechanical and civil engineering to learn scuba diving, earn a master's in oceanographic geology at Southern Cal, land a job to study sediment movements on the ocean floor. Mrs. Sylvia P. Pauley earned $30,000 a year as an interior decorator in Manhattan for such clients as Charles of the Ritz, decided she wanted to be interested in "something more vital than chair legs." At 46, she enrolled at Columbia, got a B.S. in sociology, then an M.A. in educational administration. Today she makes $10,000 helping Job Corps graduates find...
...anthropometry involving some eleven bodily measurements of each criminal. Fingerprinting, long a form of signature in the Orient, was introduced to Europe by Britain's William Herschel, and it had to compete with anthropometry until 1904, when two prisoners at Fort Leavenworth were found to have identi cal features, practically identical anthropometric measurements and identical names: Will West. Only their fingerprints were different, and within seven years only fingerprints were accepted in civilized communities as the ineradicable mark of criminal identification...