Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...parents, most of them professional people and graduates of the best colleges in the country, Melody Workshop in Berkeley, Calif, seemed an ideal nursery school. It was run by imaginative Lila Joralemon, 35, who considers bright preschoolers capable of more than mindless play. Using music-a sure fascinator for children aged 3½ to 5-she taught the alphabet, French, good manners and good music itself. But last week Mrs. Joralemon, daughter of a Los Angeles school superintendent who for years fought against excessive permissiveness in education, was losing the same battle. To state welfare officials, her Melody Workshop...
...Project Echo seems to be something of practical importance." Then he drove the 35 miles to his home in Berkeley Heights, N.J., rested briefly, and went out to paint his garage-while Echo I. the product of his imagination and initiative, signaled another first in man's space adventures...
Falling in love with a teen-ager named Sue Babior (he married her June 25, 1955), Sahl finally fled Los Angeles, followed her to the University of California at Berkeley, and became the academic equivalent of a ski bum. Auditing classes off and on, he drank a tun of coffee a month in all-night campus snack bars, argued art, social science and politics into the abstract hours. He slept mainly in the back seat of his moldering Chevy, and ate cold hamburgers provided by a Nietzsche-soaked friend who worked in a short-order bin. Sometimes he slept...
...until just one more shattering blow was needed to complete his training. He got it when he disgustedly walked out of a beat-liberal campus party, picked up a tangerine on the way, and swallowed a seed that-according to Sahl-lodged in his appendix. A doctor at a Berkeley hospital referred him elsewhere when neither he nor Sue had the $450 for an emergency operation, ran after him to demand $10 as an examination fee. The appendix ruptured, Sahl recovered in a veterans' hospital, and the American Medical Association joined his repertory (his mildest joke about the medical...
Died. Mary Hall ("Mother") Tusch, 82, friend and mother-away-from-home to two generations of aviators, whose frame cottage opposite the air-training school on the University of California's Berkeley campus was known as "The Hangar" by thousands of visiting airmen, including Hap Arnold (who dubbed it "the first U.S.O."), Billy Mitchell, Amelia Earhart, Charles Lindbergh, and Eddie Rickenbacker from 1915 until 1950; of a stroke; in Washington...