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- DIED. S.I. Hayakawa, 85, outspoken semantics professor who,
- while acting president of San Francisco State College in 1968,
- faced down rioting students and became a hero to conservatives;
- in Greenbrae, Calif. In 1941 Hayakawa published Language in
- Action, a best-selling introduction to semantics. Although
- sympathetic to demands for a black-studies department at San
- Francisco State in 1968, Hayakawa defeated protesters' attempts
- to close the campus. Sporting his trademark tam-o'-shanter, he
- climbed atop the demonstrators' sound truck and ripped out the
- wiring of their loudspeaker. As Republican Senator from
- California from 1977 to 1983, Hayakawa advocated a lower
- entry-level minimum wage for teenagers, but was known mostly for
- dozing through briefings. He later led the movement to establish
- English as the official language of the U.S.
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