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Often the speech is canceled--Shockley says this has happened about a dozen times in the last few years. And if it goes on, students protest, reporters write him off as a nut, and his audiences are always hostile. He always speaks in the Northeast or on the West Coast, and never has any visible support. Students burn him in effigy, academics condemn him, blacks hate him, and his own university, Stanford, won't let him teach genetics...
...Some people may think I'm a nut for this," Tierney said, "but I'm happily married and when I was single I did all right...
...Kalmbach family moved to Pasadena from Michigan (his father had died) when Herb was a young teenager. Frank Clement, who became his best schoolboy friend, remembers the newcomer as "a free and loose kid, an absolute nut . . . with the guts of a burglar." Of Germanic origins, Kalmbach was a fleeting, childish admirer of Hitler before World War II broke out, writing some stories about the Reich in the school paper. Remarkably, he was one of four finalists in a design competition for an airplane de-icer that the U.S. needed, even though, recalls Clement, he was only...
Even that inveterate worshiper of statistics, the classic baseball nut, might not recall that all those records are held by the same man: Henry Aaron of the Atlanta Braves. But this season no fan needs a record book to realize that Hammerin' Hank is threatening to break the most glamorous mark in sports, the 714 home runs hit by Babe Ruth...
Among these possibilities, one thing is sure. There is no doubt that Castaneda, or a man by that name, exists: he is alive and well in Los Angeles, a loquacious, nut-brown anthropologist, surrounded by such concrete proofs of existence as a Volkswagen minibus, a Master Charge card, an apartment in Westwood and a beach house. His celebrity is concrete too. It now makes it difficult for him to teach and lecture, especially after an incident at the University of California's Irvine campus last year when a professor named John Wallace procured a Xerox copy of the manuscript...