Word: cal
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However, fewer students are turning down Stanford. The Princeton report showed an increase in students rejecting Princeton for the Palo Alto, Cal. campus. Although Harvard still takes more students from Princeton than any other school, Stanford is now number two, surpassing Yale...
...hospital for treatment. "She said I had no business telling her what to do and that I couldn't make her do anything," the mother said. The same day Seegrist donned Army combat fatigues, drove to a Springfield, Pa., mall and began firing at shoppers with a .22-cal. carbine. Before being disarmed by a graduate student who thought she was firing blanks, she shot ten people, killing a 2 1/2-year-old boy and a 64-year-old man. At her arraignment on murder charges, Seegrist was as defiant as she had been with her mother. "I hope you starve...
...best varsity sport for years at Brown has been water polo. Just like their fellow mellow students at the U-Cal-Irvine, for Brownies, it's water polo first, last and always...
...proposal by Rep. Leon E. Panetta (D-Cal.) will also help young Americans interested in volunteer work. He has proposed a National Youth Volunteer Act, which would grant matching funds to local public service programs. The bill, which is currently in a house subcommittee, has received the endorsement and support of President...
...house by nine police officers searching for a teenager who was suspected of possessing a sawed-off shotgun. The youth's mother confronted the police after they had battered down her front door. Apparently fearing that the armed youth was inside, a police inspector fired a .38-cal. pistol. The shot struck the woman, leaving her paralyzed from the waist down. As word of the shooting spread, crowds gathered outside the Brixton Road police station and began throwing gasoline bombs and bricks. Rampaging youths, some as young as 13, looted businesses, set fire to cars and poured oil on roadways...