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After the cable car and the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco takes a particular civic pride in its unique sourdough bread. Its special qualities depend on a yeastlike "starter" used in the baking, and locals are fond of arguing that the city's cool, foggy climate gives it qualities that cannot be duplicated...
...police set up a roadblock just outside the civic center, Jim Kean, 47, a photographer for the San Rafael Independent-Journal, who had heard the alarm on a police radio in his car, arrived in the building and practically collided with the escaping gunmen. "You take all the pictures you want," said one. "We are the revolutionaries." As they briefly discussed whether or not to take Kean hostage as well, he and his Independent-Journal colleague Roger Bockrath caught an astonishing series of photographs (see following page). The gunmen decided to leave Kean behind. They walked out into the warm...
...However, the sources indicated that Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations, would resign from his job to assume the title of associate dean of the College, a newly created post...
...news of the ghetto, Earner hopes to begin a weekly newsletter aimed at business executives and social service agencies, and he is exploring the possibilities of a school kit dealing with such topics as narcotics and building-code violations. The thirst for improved coverage of minorities seems widespread. Editors, civic organizations and other private groups in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Philadelphia and Chicago have asked CNS about the chances of establishing similar organizations in their cities...
...letter to Rep. Richard H. Ichord (DMo.), chairman of HISC, Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Civic and Governmental Relations, said that Harvard does not have the information the committee requested because "matters such as who is invited to speak and whether the speaker is paid (and if paid, what amount) are wholly within the control of the student organizations...