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...warmed up, Brown took off on a daylong, 500-mile swing through the heavily Democratic coast and valley country north of California's Tehachapi Mountains. At San Luis Obispo, he was confronted by 600 angry California State Polytechnic College students, demonstrating in protest against a state-levied, $9-per-quarter parking fee for students with cars. Speaking without a microphone, Brown raised his voice to drown out the hecklers, eased the tension with a quip: "Now I know how Nixon felt in Caracas. This is my first crisis, but I'm not going to write a book about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Opening Pitch | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

LIEUT. COLONEL R. J. MANFRINI San Luis Obispo, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 2, 1962 | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

...concentration of those who, whatever is being done, want to be the first to do it. Fox Hole Shelter, Inc., offshoot of a swimming-pool firm that got into shelters two years ago by turning its original product upside down, has already sold 236 Fox Holes from San Luis Obispo to San Diego. Sacramento's Atlas Bomb Shelter is starting to merchandise a 35-ton prefab model for six that, depending on excavation costs, will sell for between $5,000 and $6,000. "We haven't done any advertising yet," crows Atlas' Boss Frank Ringer, "but even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Building: Shelter Skelter | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Can You See Many Lights? | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Can You See Many Lights? | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

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