Word: san
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board of regents settled on a compromise. Cleaver and the other guest speakers, said the board, will be limited to one lecture each. In the midst of the controversy, the University of Santa Clara invited the Panther professor to become a guest lecturer at its campus south of San Francisco...
Much of the credit for saving the redwoods belongs to the California-based Sierra Club and San Francisco's Save-the-Redwoods League, which was founded 50 years ago. Creation of the park comes none too soon. At the present rate of logging, the virgin stands of redwoods would last only another 20 years, a mere second in the lives of trees that were swaying in the Pacific breeze when Christ was born...
Within the past year countless other heads of U.S. colleges and universities have also quit, well before retirement age. They include U.C.L.A.'s Franklin Murphy, 52, Indiana's Elvis J. Stahr, 52, Swarthmore's Courtney Smith, 51, Kentucky's John W. Oswald, 50, San Francisco State's John Summerskill, 43, and Hawaii's Thomas Hamilton...
...significant unknowns, have been included. Giotto, Italy's first great fresco painter, is represented by a fragment showing the leonine head of a shepherd, Piero della Francesca by a lone saint. The gentle spirit of Fra Angelico is manifest in a lunette from the Florentine cloister of San Marco. It portrays St. Peter Martyr (a 13th century Dominican monk) putting his finger to his lips to enjoin the monks to silence...
Philip Morris discovered women smokers now account for 42% of a market that last year consumed 527.8 billion cigarettes. And the "swinging woman of the '60s," to whom the company is pitching its Slims, apparently likes the idea of a cigarette of her own. Test-marketed in the San Francisco Bay area, the new brand rapidly gathered 1½% of all sales; additional cartons had to be shipped in by air. Since 1% is considered a good share of the market for any brand, Philip Morris decided to skip the two more months of planned testing and go with...