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...Frisco, Texas...
...here if I wanted," he said. "Just have to go through a little training period. But I think I'll move on." So with that we piled back into the Chevrolet and set off for San Francisco. "I think there'll be some good jobs in 'Frisco," he said as we drove into the desert...
...just graduated from BOLT, Berkely's Law school, the previous June. He told me, someday he'd like to live in Presidio, maybe after he got into San Francisco politics. He said politics in 'Frisco are though to get into, you need the approval of the city's aristocrats, and they've been running San Francisco since before the California gold rush...
Alvin's old-school brand of charm is a welcome change from the modish mustachio of Dick Williams. He spent a lot of time under Leo Durocher for the Giants, and emerged in his own right as a manager for "Frisco in 1962-64. He took over Finley's Kansas City Athletics in 1966 and broke with Charles in 1968, whereupon he flew to the Indians. Alvin never got along that well with management, and GM Gabe Paul ousted him in 1970. He reminds me a lot of Hank Bauer, the crusty if effective skipper...
...help trains to become "un-derpatronized"-and therefore eligible for cancellation under ICC rules. There were 1,400 intercity passenger trains in 1958; now there are only 488. Every road in the U.S. is out to emulate the half a dozen carriers, from the Boston and Maine to the Frisco, that have succeeded in eliminating passenger business entirely. President Louis W. Menk of Northern Pacific might have been speaking for the industry in November when he told a House committee: "I make no mistake about it. I want...