Word: obispo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football season had been a bleak one for California State Polytechnic College, the pride of the California mission city of San Luis Obispo-five games lost and only one victory. All the same, an adventurous excitement built up as the squad got ready for its one big faraway fling of the year, a game with Bowling Green State University near Toledo, Ohio. After recoiling at the cost of a four-engined plane, the school settled on a charter from Arctic-Pacific Airlines ($7,700) in a C-46, a tired, twin-engined relic of World...
...Poly team, and this time the stay-at-homes jokingly plastered the team's lockers with pictures of air crashes. Even so, many an envious rooter turned out to see the 35 members of the team, four coaches, the manager, doctor and a sportswriter from the San Luis Obispo Telegram-Tribune off on the big junket...
...small comfort to San Luis Obispo that the FAA belatedly grounded all Arctic-Pacific planes. Through the week, while its flags hung at half mast, the town was as glum as the cool, grey fog that rolled in from the Pacific. Cal Poly remembered Halfback Vic Hall, an alternate 400-meter sprinter on the 1960 Olympic team. Vic wore contact lenses and had not wanted to play football, but the weak team needed him for his exceptional speed, so he had agreed to play. There was Curtis Hill, an end from Bakersfield, a smiling, studious, religious boy who had walked...
Despite Castro's boast at the U.N. and elsewhere that he has reduced unemployment, some 700,000 workers are jobless, precisely the number under Batista. Downtown Havana's Galiano and Obispo streets are spotted with unemployed trying to peddle combs, hats, cigarettes, small leather goods. Those who have jobs face rugged taxation, even at the lowest unskilled wage level; a 3% income tax, a 4% "voluntary contribution" for industrialization, plus social security, union dues, and one-shot pass-the-hat campaigns cut the average worker's take-home...