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...least five times higher. If Sowetoians are lucky, they may advance to such jobs as computer programmer or bank teller, not necessarily restricted to whites. If they manage that, they can join Soweto's minuscule black elite (less than 1%) who live in a kind of Nob Hill known as Pioneer Avenue with ranch houses, one or two cars, black servants, golf courses and even an annual debutante ball...
...didn't start out to reform the world," says Sally Stanford, 72. Just the opposite, in fact. In the '30s and '40s, she was a flamboyant San Francisco madam, running an opulent Nob Hill house (including a 9-ft. Roman bath) that had a clientele to match (the 1945 United Nations conference was one of her busiest seasons). But in 1947 Sally went legit, opened a restaurant in Sausalito and got interested in politics. After four failed races for city council under the name of Marsha Owen, she resumed her nom de nuit in 1972 and swept...
...protégé on the Examiner, recalled last week: "After a certain point, I think they were resigned to the fact that she wasn't going to turn herself in." To get away from "painful memories," the Hearsts moved into an apartment on San Francisco's Nob Hill; it was Feb. 20-Patty's 21st birthday. On Sept. 1, Randolph Hearst stepped down as editor and publisher of the Examiner; he remains the paper's president and chairman of the Hearst Corp., which controls eight newspapers as well as Cosmopolitan, Popular Mechanics, Good Housekeeping...
...leveller priests on the assembly line. Ferrying the executives across the Styx which we call be many names--Hudson, East, Cuyahoga, Detroit, Los Angeles, or Bay; ferrying souls from West Point or the East side or poshest Cleveland or plushest Bloomfield Hills, or from the splendors of Westwood or Nob Bill, ferried in radial punctureproof silence to those lushest immortal gardens of bones which match each heavenly city of America. Whatever the name they are all Forests of Yawns, Kingdoms of Yawns, the end of Dawns. Terminals...
With his bail set at $ 1,000,000, Bunyard has so far been charged with only two counts of murder, two counts of assault on police officers and two counts of kidnaping. But a collection of knives found in his Nob Hill apartment, plus a positive identification by one of the area's Oriental rape victims, has led police to believe that they have finally found the Nob Hill rapist...