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Others on Humphrey's short list: Maine Senator Edmund Muskie; Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver, a Kennedy brother-in-law; New Jersey's Governor Richard Hughes; Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris; San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto...
...During 20 years spent chasing tax dodgers for the Internal Revenue Service, Ben Larosa always enjoyed good health. After he retired in 1965, he shifted to teaching, and the ghetto schools of San Francisco, he found, were just too rough. Larosa's students broke into fistfights almost daily, hurled paper clips, and hit him on the head with chalk and textbooks. Soon he had a bleeding ulcer and, on his doctor's advice, quit teaching. Last month, in a landmark ruling affecting a teacher, a California Workmen's Compensation Appeals Board decided that Larosa had "sustained injury...
That they have. A decade ago there were no more than a handful of West Coast painters of note. Today, California embraces the vast, variegated range of op, pop and minimal, not to .mention such homegrown mutations as the weird, surrealistic offshoot known as funk centered around San Francisco. Los Angeles' particular contribution is an array of bright young individualists who espouse the belief that the object is what is important, not what it represents. "We are going beyond abstraction," argues Robert Irwin, who at 40 is something of a guru to the group. Irwin's own works...
...San Diego's KGB rocketed from lowest-ranked in town to the top on Drake's 63rd day as consultant. Small wonder that stations pay up to $100,000 a year for his services...
...more money and better work conditions, staged a brief "ticket strike" last year, deliberately cut the number of summonses issued for minor traffic violations by 50%. Slowdowns also occur when workers phone in sick in large numbers, a ruse used over the past 18 months by Philadelphia street cleaners, San Antonio garbagemen and Des Moines firemen...