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Starr has succeeded with the technique so far, but if he hopes for a total success he should pursue the history of California to its present resolution. He is leaving Harvard for California this summer to work for Mayor Alioto in San Francisco and teach as a visiting professor at Berkeley. He writes that he plans two more installments on the California experience. Perhaps he will finally explain to me the Beach Boys and Ronald Reagan...
...Alioto said that the ideal in education is to allow young members of minority groups to first learn about their individual culture and then bring the various groups together at a later...
...Alioto said that it is "out of cities with all their violence that the best in our civilization has come." He also said that his city must be compared to the violent Florence of Machiavelli which he called "the most civilized city in the world...
...freeway revolt" against indiscriminate paving of the countryside began in San Francisco, Alioto said, when the auto lobby proposed that a freeway be built alongside the "crystal lakes" of the Bay area. Alioto said that he could only reply. "You gotta be kidding...
...mayor compared his job to that of a poet who must "walk the edge of a volcano" trying to analyse the prevailing social currents. Saying that there is always going to be injustice in the world. Alioto urged students "not to give up" and "try as best we can to ameliorate the problems...