Word: francisco
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...first Henry Ford, unlike his grandson, might have thought scholarly Robert McNamara, president of the Ford Motor Co., an odd choice to be top man in either Dearborn or the Pentagon. San Francisco-born, Bob McNamara was a sophomore Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California. He went on to Harvard Business School for a master's degree, taught there for three years after working briefly for the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. Although 4-F (eye trouble) during World War II, McNamara wangled a captain's commission in the Army Air Forces, eventually joined...
...both Roman Catholic and Protestant, which emphasizes the centrality of the Mass or Communion for the church, and goes back for precedent to the early Christian practice whereby the congregation gathered around the Communion table and actively participated in the sacrament. "What we are seeking to restore." says San Francisco's Episcopal Bishop James Pike, "is the family around the table of the Lord...
...Anselm's," says Bishop Pike proudly, "the congregation is not the audience for a performing clergy and choir. The clergy, choir and congregation perform together, and God is the audience." So popular, in fact, is St. Anselm's that Bishop Pike now proposes to revamp San Francisco's still unfinished Grace Cathedral to place the high altar at the crossing of nave and transepts...
...drinks-the minimum at the higher-priced places, such as the Blue Angel and the Latin Quarter, is $7; a highball averages about $1.25. New York has less convention-tickling cheapness than Chicago and more variety than Los Angeles, but a lack of the good-time-Charleyism of San Francisco. While New York probably has more nightclub activity than any European city, it cannot touch the vulgarity of Hamburg or the competitive, nuder-than-thou spirit of Paris, where G-strings are worn only by fiddles, and one hilariously surrealist female statue-at the Port du Salut-has a heart...
...Transported by the U.S. Navy, the exhibit opened two months ago at the University of Indiana, which has a thriving teacher and student exchange program with Thailand. When it leaves the Met in February, the show will go on to Boston, Toledo, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco and Honolulu in the U.S. before getting back home...