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...working-class neighborhoods around Berkeley lived people who were doing everything people in Berkeley wanted to avoid," says Sandra C. Robertson '67, who studied Spanish at the University of California at Berkeley in the late years of the turbulent decade...
...They were working at miserable jobs," Robertson says, "paying taxes, strapped into these 50- week-a-year jobs, unhappy and drinking beer infront of their TV sets...
...streets, social protest took a lessconfrontational form. Robertson remembers herfirst summer in Berkeley as "a time when peoplewere celebrating," she says. "There werespontaneous concerts. People would get together,play music, dance, hug each other and have awonderful time. There was a lot of sexualfreedom...
...PREACHERS NORMALLY HAVE THEIR HANDS FULL trying to save human souls. So when televangelist Pat Robertson stepped forward last week to attempt to save the venerable soul of United Press International from bankruptcy, he prompted a flurry of questions. Just what does Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and a onetime presidential hopeful, see in the tottering wire service, which may soon be his for a paltry $6 million? Perhaps a good business deal. Or a chance to proselytize. Shortly after making his surprise bid, the savvy televangelist promised that he would not convert U.P.I. to a Christian news...
...Robertson started his empire in 1959 with wyah, a ramshackle station in Portsmouth, Va., whose call letters stand for Yahweh (God in Hebrew). Since then, he has masterfully mixed the 700 Club, a religious talk show, with the Family Channel, a 24-hour oasis of clean entertainment, to build a lucrative media operation, which U.P.I.'s newsgathering would neatly complement. Robertson has one month to review the agency's books, after which he can adjust his offer or drop it completely...