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THUS DOES Cooke approach his topics: with sketches, vivid description, and not a little humor below the surface. It is somehow appropriate that a chat about a Californian living in the midst of swimming pools, sprinkler systems, and ultra-modern cigarette lighters should conclude with a picture of this "professional Californian"--perhaps the precursor of a new civilization--sitting in his living room with a .22 rifle ready to blast into eternity the next squirrel that tries to munch from his laboriously-fostered grass lawn...
After the police had cleared the building, the interior was found to be in a state of complete disarray. One reporter from the student newspaper, The Daily Californian, who was inside before the police came said, "It's my opinion that the police did more damage than the students...
...remaining 70 students expected a police raid late last night, a Daily Californian source said...
Hundreds of sympathetic students gathered outside Moses Hall, passing food into the building and helping construct the barricades. Inside, offices were "completely disheveled" as the furniture was added to the barricades, the Daily Californian source said...
...none of the first three finishers even man aged to equal the Olympic qualifying standard. But in most of the other events, the thin air was obviously no great hindrance. California's Geoff Vanderstock pared .3 sec. off the world record for the 400-meter intermediate hurdles. Another Californian, Jim Hines, tied the world mark of 10 sec. flat in the 100-meter dash. Army SP/4 Tom Farrell ran one of the fastest 800 me ters of the year when he was clocked in 1 min. 46.5 sec. And California's Bob Seagren soared over the pole-vault...