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Assistant Professor Samuel Shapiro, head of the history department at Michigan State University's Oakland campus, has recently been denied tenure. The Detroit Free Press, reporting the story in its December 8th edition, quoted MSU's Associate Dean George Matthews as saying "Shapiro 'would have had a better chance' if he had written less and said less about Cuba and Latin-American affairs...
Instead of programming even more freeways and bridges, city engineers drew up imaginative plans for a rapid-transit system that would include the shuttling of trains from Oakland to San Francisco through a six-mile tube under the bay. Now it takes a commuter an hour to drive the 20 miles from Orinda to the downtown area; the transit system would whisk him there in 18 minutes aboard swift, silent trains that would run every 90 seconds during rush hours. The 26-mile trip between San Francisco and southern Alameda County now takes 1½ hours by car in heavy...
...Oakland, Calif., Engineer Rudolph Hurwich, 41, and Accountant Leo Helzel, 45, bought the rights to a hand-operated labeling device, formed Dymo Corp. After four years of rapid diversification, Dymo has sales of $10 million...
Dallas 26, Oakland...
...story towers this week was far more than a response to architectural novelty. It was a testament to the success of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc.. a repetition of the warm response that greeted the opening of Kaiser's new Medical Office Building at Hayward, near Oakland, fortnight ago. it was one more impressive statistic to add to the success of the eleven other hospitals and 38 clinics that the foundation operates in California. Oregon and Hawaii...