ILL. Barry Goldwater, 72, Arizona's grand old conservative Republican Senator; with degenerative arthritis in the left hip; in Phoenix. He will undergo surgery to replace the hip with a metal ball and plastic socket. Goldwater, who limped painfully around the Senate during the AW ACS debate, will be out for six weeks.
DIED. Max Scherr, 65, rotund, disorderly founder of the underground newspaper the Berkeley Barb; of cancer; in Berkeley, Calif. Founded in 1965 during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the Barb proselytized for revolution, drugs and "free" sex, peaking at 90,000 readers in 1969, before closing in 1980. Scherr made...
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