Word: san
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jackie Onassis. Jackie Onassis," mused Columnist Herb Caen in the San Francisco Chronicle. "It sounds funny, but we got used to Senator George Murphy and Governor Ronald Reagan." For a week now, the former Jacqueline Kennedy had been Mrs. Aristotle Onassis, and the world and Herb Caen were beginning to get used to it. Still, though the initial stir of excitement had receded, there was no shortage of comment, much of it venomous...
...team hardly ranked with the star-studded squads of the past. Notably absent were the top two collegiate players of last season: U.C.L.A.'s Lew Alcindor, who pleaded pressure of studies, and Houston's Elvin Hayes, who chose to sign a $440,000 contract with the pro San Diego Rockets instead of going to Mexico. The tallest man on the starting five was 6-ft. 8-in. Spencer Hay wood, a 19-year-old sophomore from the University of Detroit. The other starters included a 24-year-old Army captain and a 28-year-old rubber-company foreman...
...Rice Pudding." Ron Wood, who says that he usually sticks to the "basic bass progressions on the blues stuff," suddenly opened up and played a bristling rock-bass solo. This has since been included in the song, and the number which started as a jam one night in San Francisco continues to grow...
Smith had just won the 200-meter dash in a record-breaking 19.8 sec. Carlos, his bearded teammate from San Jose State College, had finished third. Together, they turned up for the awards ceremony shoeless, wearing knee-length black stockings and a black glove on one hand (the right for Tommie, the left for John). Along with Australia's Peter Norman, the second-place finisher, they mounted the victory pedestal to receive their medals. Then, as the U.S. flag was raised and the band struck up The Star-Spangled Banner, the two black athletes bowed their heads and raised...
...delights landlords, and quite possibly signals a fundamental shift in how most Americans will choose to live in the years ahead. "Demand is so strong that you could almost leave out the bathroom and rent a new apartment," says California Developer Gerson Bakar, whose 994-unit Woodlake Apartments in San Mateo have a six-month waiting list. Bakar's comment, which drew appreciative chuckles last week at a Las Vegas convention of the National Apartment Association, reflects his industrys' ebullient mood...