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...Pennsylvania city's fourth-rank status rests largely on its low crime rate, reasonable housing costs, equable climate and access to recreational facilities and the arts. Cleveland ranks 14th because of its opportunities for leisure, arts and health care; it ties with San Francisco-Oakland, which suffers from a very high crime rate and dizzying housing costs...
...nation's two other relatively new subway-and-elevated train systems are having mixed results. Ridership has purted 15% in the past year on San Francisco-Oakland's seven-year-old BART system (for Bay Area Rapid Transit), but it las been able to handle the crowds efficiently. Washington's newer Metro has coped as best it could but still has too few cars to accommodate the mobs. Even before they leave the first station, trains often have standing room only. Metro also is ridden with bugs: brake defects have forced cars to be withdrawn from service...
...basic cable is the superstations-independent broadcast-TV stations that also lease space on Satcom, whose signals bounce to the earth stations of cable systems all over the country. At present there are four: WTCG in Atlanta, WOR in New York, WON in Chicago and KTVU in the San Francisco-Oakland area. They and their cable customers should benefit especially from the FCC'S proposal last week that cable operators be permitted to pick up as many signals as they like from anywhere, and a companion proposal that cable companies be permitted to air shows even if the same...
Editing, the late, Adlai Stevenson once observed, consists of separating the wheat from the chaff-and printing the chaff. Something like that, only worse, seems to have happened at TV Guide when it received a program listing for a now defunct local talk show on San Francisco-Oakland's KTVU. The notice said that guests for the show on Sept. 20,1968, would include Pat Montandon, a well-known Bay Area hostess who had written a book about giving imaginative parties on lean budgets, and an unnamed masked prostitute. TV Guide's condensed version: "From party girl...
...Iowa, plus Detroit, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, Birmingham, Dallas-Fort Worth, Denver and San Francisco-Oakland...