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...horticultural extravaganza at the San Francisco Cow Palace. Called "The World of Plants," it is a kind of Woodstock for flora freaks, featuring exhibits by 250 plant merchants, a 35-ft.-high bush-covered volcano, human tomatoes, and the piped-in music of Villa-Lobos, Debussy and Bartók. Rock groups may be fun, Graham reflects, but plant fiends are easier on the nerves. None of that "standing beside a limousine at the airport praying that your star hasn't flown off to India instead of doing the concert," he says. "I'm the only...
Hance's election followed the successful bid made one year ago by Janet Gray Hayes for the mayoralty of San Jose, Calif. Calling for a "better not bigger" San Jose, Hayes edged out former police detective "Black Bart" Collins to become the first female mayor of a city of over 500,000 population...
...very different. The society she selected included a host of American and European literary luminaries, who frequented dinner parties at her splendidly appointed homes and accompanied her on sight-seeing jaunts across the Continent. And yet the terrible aloneness of Wharton heroines like The House of Mirth's Lily Bart was their creator's as well; for, like Dickinson, Wharton imagined herself "as gazing out through the bars of a prison at the procession of life...
Another two buses took us to the Oakland-Alameda Country Coliseum, where the Oakland A's, formerly the Kansas City A's, formerly the Philadelphia A's, play. BART, the nation's newest rapid transit system, also goes to the Coliseum. But not on weekends, and not on weekdays after 8 p.m. We had to wait until Monday to see if the future worked...
...Behind locked doors, teachers and students went about the business of education, uneasy yet remarkably undisturbed by the tensions in the community. Said Bart Coonce, 15, a white senior at Fairdale High School: "We're all against busing, but now we should try to make it work." Argued Joe Barnett, 17, a white senior at Shawnee High School: "The problem is parents." Added Dawn Babbage, 16, a white sophomore at Shawnee: "Mom was afraid at first and I was too, but I think that it is going to be okay." Said Reggie Foster, 16, a black sophomore at Valley High...