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...ominous motor noise was at first too faint to be heard by the crowd in Sproul Plaza below. Five hundred University of California students and other young people milled about, some lolling on the grass, some gibing at and singing to the National Guardsmen who surrounded them. Gradually, the grinding sound enveloped the plaza. A bulbous green helicopter swooped in over the treetops, belching white puffs of a potent military tear gas called CS. The powder settled indiscriminately on demonstrators and bystanders, drifting into classrooms and the campus hospital. The crowd in Sproul Plaza tried to flee, but gas-masked...
Undaunted by so formidable an obstacle, Astronomer Peter van de Kamp, the director of the Sproul Observatory at Swarthmore (Pa.) College, set out 31 years ago to search for dark companions of nearby stars. His long effort has been well rewarded. Last week the Dutch-born, 67-year-old astronomer an nounced the first "solid evidence" that there is a system of planets other than the solar system. He has detected two planets circling Barnard's star, some 35 trillion miles away from the earth, in the constellation Ophiuchus...
Retrieving Books. True to his word, Heyns called in campus police to arrest 105 students who had occupied Sproul Hall for ten hours. The students did not resist arrest and the cops were so polite that one demonstrator was even led back inside to retrieve his forgotten books. When more militant demonstrators next occupied Moses Hall, damaging furniture and files, Heyns got tougher. He summoned off-campus cops to grab 72 of them in a predawn raid; although they submitted meekly, he immediately suspended all of them. The protesters then issued their call for a strike by students and faculty...
Early yesterday morning, police managed to peacefully remove the students from Sproul Hall. A physics professor and 120 students who refused to halt the sit-in were arrested...
...Sproul Hall, the administration building that saw 700 arrests during the 1964 Free Speech Movement, was locked as soon as the students had been removed...