Word: orinda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ERNST BACON Orinda, Calif...
MICHAEL J. FLYNN Orinda, Calif...
...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 traffic; by train...
...Orinda, Calif...
Died. Leo Samuel Levy, 75, crusty, sardonic newsman, who set an unofficial and perhaps unapproachable editorial record by surviving for 50 years as managing editor of the Oakland Tribune, where his hard-driven staff always respectfully addressed him as "Mr. Levy"; of a heart attack; in Orinda, Calif...