Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First hippie "bein" is held in San Francisco's Golden Gate park...
...Mass arrests at Berkeley (1964) prefigure later campus revolts at Columbia and San Francisco State (1968), Harvard and Cornell...
...Christmas threatens from Tokyo to Toledo, Messiahs are busting out again all over the world. The work is being staged, illustrated with color slides, tinkled through by tiny orchestras, blasted over by huge ones, shouted by great singers and squeaked by small ones. In New York and San Francisco, people are paying to sight-read the choruses at "Messiah sing-ins," and at the White House, President Nixon heard a 30-minute sample. One way or another, Handel's Messiah these days is as omnipresent as its namesake-and just about as worshiped and abused...
...officers of many major corporations, the man to see about a particularly complicated loan has been Alden Winship Clausen, vice chairman of the San Francisco-based Bank of America. Outside the corridors of corporate power, however, Clausen is almost unknown. He belongs to few clubs and, unlike many bankers, has never headed a Chamber of Commerce. From now on, he will operate more in the public eye. Last week Bank of America directors chose "Tom" Clausen, 46, to become president and chief executive of the world's largest commercial bank...
...from cosmetics counters instead of drug shelves. It was introduced nationally in August, and sales in the first two months climbed to $250,000-a total that would please any marketer of a new drug or cosmetic. It has had little trouble moving into better-known stores, including San Francisco's I. Magnin, Washington's Woodward & Lothrop and Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus. Philadelphia's Strawbridge & Clothier declined to advertise the product publicly but included 75,000 brochures for the item in the monthly statements that it mails to customers...