Assemblyman John Burton is elected head of the California Democratic Council, which backs student demonstrators at Stanford and San Francisco State.

Look at the bylines on the page at left: Ken Reich … Dick Bergholz … Doug Shuit … Daryl Lembke … and Noel Greenwood, later The Times' Metro editor.

Greenwood takes a long look at the "black ghetto of Venice." "A pulsating street life begins at dusk, the young low-riding the streets in cars or gathering on corners, a shout now and then down the street, a radio bursting with hard rock, an argument in a nearby house."

"A climate of fear and suspicion" between African Americans and police.

"If there is a sense of peace between ghetto youth and police now, it is a false sense."

Robert Hilburn reviews the Grassroots.

"Fearless Fosdick" in "Li'l Abner."

Elgin Baylor broke out of a slump with 29 points to lead the Lakers
over the Atlanta Hawks, 104-96. "It would seem odd if we played anyone
else," Baylor said about the Celtics.

— Keith Thursby