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...whorehouses that once lined "Venus Alley" have disappeared. But the ugliness remains. In the years following World War II, Butte had a raw look because it was a boom town. Today it is shabby because it is dying. For the past two decades, the Anaconda Company's immense Berkeley pit has been slowly nibbling away one section of the hilltop city after another. Now the pit, a gaping, terraced ulcer 7,200 ft. long, a mile wide and 1,500 ft. deep, has begun to eat into the town's business district. By 1985, say some resigned residents...
...huge machines used in open-pit operations replaced many miners. Then the machines began digging into Butte itself. First opened just to the south of the city, the ever-growing Berkeley pit has swallowed neighborhoods with names like Dublin Gulch and Sin Town; since 1970, it has devoured most of the city's residential McQueen section. Currently, it is chewing away at downtown Butte. Meanwhile, a second pit, begun in 1973, has destroyed the Columbia Gardens amusement center and the city's only sizable park. With the remaining ore reserves due to run out in a decade...
Died. Robert Gordon Sproul, 84, president of the University of California from 1930 to 1958, during which time the multicampus university rose to international prominence; in Berkeley, Calif. Sproul, who graduated from U.C. in 1913, became president of the university after ten years as its comptroller. But he was a canny politician - by 1947 he had managed to get more than $255 million from the state legislature. He offered high salaries and attracted an eminent faculty, while working hard to unify the university's southern and northern factions: at annual football contests between U.C.L.A. and Berkeley, Sproul switched sides...
Last May, President Bok convened an ad hoc committee--which must act on all Faculty appointments before sending them to Bok and the Governing Boards--to consider Southern, Ephraim Isaac, associate professor of Afro-American Studies, and William Shack, an associate professor of Anthropology at Berkeley...
...opening the season of the Boston Shakespeare Company. This play is full of magic and romance and beautiful language, and if you've somehow managed to go this long without seeing it, you should take advantage of this opportunity. Tonight and tomorrow at 8 at the Boston Shakespeare Company, Berkeley and Marlborough Streets in Back...