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Words to clap hands by in a Negro church on Sunday night? Not really. They just happen to be the stuff of the nation's No. 5 single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Composed, arranged and conducted by Edwin Hawkins, the 25-year-old son of an Oakland, Calif., long shoreman, Oh Happy Day is far and away the surprise hit of the year. From Los Angeles to Boston, its bubbling, infectious sound is being aired ten to 20 times a day on Negro rhythm-and-blues stations, easy-listening stations, even rock stations. The LP from which...
...directly across it. The historic trackage was hauled off and melted down to help meet World War II metal shortages. Even the causeway line is now used by only one passenger train, the City of San Francisco, and the railroad wants to suspend service between Ogden, Utah, and Oakland, Calif...
...every bad trip in San Francisco takes place in the Haight-Ashbury district. Many straight commuters endure hazardous journeys daily as they try to maneuver through stationary streams of traffic heading for Oakland, Berkeley, Sausalito or suburbs beyond. Unique in many other respects, the San Francisco Bay Area suffers from the prevalent urban malady of too many automobiles, too few highway lanes. But unlike many other metropolitan areas, San Francisco and two neighboring counties are creating an attractive alternative to clogged highways...
Soothing Rides. Of more interest to its future passengers, BART is designed to be fast, comfortable, convenient and cheap to use. The 7½-mile trip between San Francisco and Oakland across the Bay Bridge can take 30 minutes or considerably longer in rush-hour jams. Hurtling its riders beneath San Francisco Bay through the world's longest underwater transit tube-3.6 miles-BART will make the trip in nine minutes. The BART trains will hit a top speed of 80 m.p.h. and will average 50 m.p.h., including the time taken at stops. The rides will be soothing...
Rootless Childhood. The "Loner" title was corny but appropriate. McKuen has led his life mostly apart from others. He was born into the Depression in a Salvation Army hospital in Oakland, Calif., shortly after his father had deserted the family. His mother worked as a waitress, a telephone operator and a dime-a-dance hostess until her marriage to a "cat-skinner"-the operator of Caterpillar tractors on Government road projects. McKuen was hauled from one construction site to another throughout the West and Northwest until, at age eleven, he split from his family and spent four years drifting...