Word: san
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...execution atmosphere enveloped San Francisco as the Republican Party convened to nominate its presidential candidate. Lyndon Johnson was at the zenith of his popularity. The G.O.P. was preparing to counter him with Barry Goldwater, an all-but-certain loser. The economy was booming, taxes were down, the cities were more or less tranquil, and Viet Nam was a relatively far-off rumble...
...specialist, "everything is reamplified many times, and the noise becomes nearly intolerable." Dr. Victor Goodhill of Hollywood reports that sound levels in many rock-'n'-roll night clubs soar to 125 db. Dr. Charles P. Lebo of the University of California took measuring instruments into two San Francisco rock-'n'-roll joints, where the cacophony was produced mainly by amplified guitars and percussion instruments (see diagram). Throughout the audible-speech range, Lebo found that the sound intensity averaged over 100 db at virtually all frequencies. It rose to 119 db at peaks in the center...
...When I was in San Quentin," Benito Arzaga remembers, "we were allowed to visit with our families-if they stayed on one side of the table and we stayed on the other. My kids would reach out their hands to me to try to touch me. I'd look up at the guard, and he'd shake his head. The kids would start crying and yelling 'Daddy.' I couldn't do nothing. Just sit there and watch my kids crying...
...restrictions vary widely. The only rule at San Francisco's fashionable Shreve's jewelry store is a prohibition against sleeveless dresses on saleswomen. A Houston chemical company looks askance at fishnet hose and false eyelashes. At California Federal Savings & Loan, says one official dryly, "We don't care if a man wears a beard, just so long as he doesn't wear it into the office." Geico Insurance Co.'s Washington office frowns on culotte dresses, but refrains from formally banning them because they are often difficult to detect. Many companies, in fact, shy away...
Lunching Uptown. In most matters of dress, few companies are more conservative than those in finance and insurance. At Chicago's Northern Trust Co., a tradition requiring all officers to wear hats to work has been abandoned, but sport coats remain strictly taboo. San Francisco's Wells Fargo Bank prohibits beards, even though, admits one officer, "our founders wore them." Many secretaries employed in lower Manhattan's financial district live with their parents in Brooklyn, Queens and New Jersey, thus dress with far more restraint than their emancipated counterparts working in the midtown area. "That...