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Governor Reagan, of course, may well call a special session of the legislature to expedite San Francisco's long-awaited BART system. Various measures have been suggested for overcoming its steep construction deficit: higher Bay Bridge tolls, additional vehicle registration or sales taxes, diversion of highway funds from the three bay counties to be served by BART. But thus far, parochial interests or lobbyists have stymied every solution. The delay has prevented BART from opening bids on the new cars for the system. That may in turn delay the opening of BART, scheduled for 1970, until well into...
...Cardinals. But Red batsmen are rattling the fences from Crosley Field to Candlestick Park. The team batting average is .270, tops in either league by 18 points. Four of their hitters are among the league's top ten; a fifth, Third Baseman Tony Perez, is second only to San Francisco's Willie McCovey in RBls with...
Meanwhile, a pictorial record of what was allegedly the real thing is on display in Revolution, a cinéma vérité documentary made on the San Francisco scene last summer. There is acid rock by such groups as the Quicksilver Messenger Service and Mother Earth. There are shots of long-haired nymphets looking stoned, solemn interviews with cops, doctors, and headshrinkers about the dangers of drugs, and interminable expositions of hippie philosophy by unbathed gurus. Apparently for the benefit of grind-house voyeurs, there is also some totally nude choreography-filtered through eye-blasting psychedelic lighting-danced...
...many clergymen seem to have experimented with marijuana-or at least are willing to admit having done so. Yet it is generally agreed that students in many of the nation's seminaries have experimented with pot. Says a professor at one theological school in the San Francisco area: "Are you kidding? There probably isn't a divinity school in the country that doesn't have the problem...
Died. Mrs. Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, 87, widow of the West Coast sugar heir, and art patroness, who gave San Francisco one of its finest museums; of pneumonia; in San Francisco. Inspired by Paris' Palace of the Legion of Honor, Mrs. Spreckels built her own $4,000,000 Legion of Honor art museum in 1924 and stocked it with one of the largest collections of Rodins outside France...