Word: san
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...psychological prejudices. Universities and colleges from Massachusetts to Oregon instituted Martin Luther King scholarships for black students; Berkeley and Stanford pledged to double their minority-group enrollment by 1969, and more than 30 Stanford professors agreed to donate 10% of their salaries to a King fund. A group of San Franciscans moved to rename the Bay Bridge for King, reasoning that "he himself spanned the gap between black and white...
...Negroes and whites sympathetic to the Panthers' aims gathered for outdoor memorial services for Bobby Hutton, the two policemen wounded at the outset of the affray on 28th Street were in good condition and one had already been able to leave the hospital. San Diego's Panther Leader Kenny Denmon said the shooting had spurred his group to switch from political organizing to procuring guns. Speaking from a flatbed truck at the ceremony, Actor Marlon Brando, a Panther supporter, vowed to "do as much as I can to inform white people that time is running out." Specifically, Oakland...
...San Francisco architect got his first fraction of an ounce of pot as a gift. He and his date did a ham-handed job of rolling joints that dripped leaves at both ends. Somehow they smoked them. What happened? "Exactly nothing. The next night we rolled four joints and got down to some serious smoking. After about 20 minutes, I began to feel slightly high, as though I was beginning to be high on alcohol. My head and feet felt lighter. It felt like I was walking wobbly-which, it turned out, wasn...
...Eventually," says the San Francisco architect, "my first marijuana high turned into a laughing jag that was infectious. Each of us roared at the other's antics. We put on some phonograph records and were captured utterly by the music. Eventually we grew affectionate and made love. I have since taken marijuana many times around attractive girls with whom I shared no emotional relationship, and there was no sexual attraction to speak...
Seizing a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to inject new life into the city core, San Antonio has dredged out a short waterway linking the fair to the San Antonio River and threaded the 92.6-acre HemisFair site itself with a network of canals. It has refurbished its heritage by restoring 24 fine 19th century Victorian houses on the fairgrounds, and the area adjacent bristles with new construction, including the 445-room Hilton Palacio Del Rio, which overlooks HemisFair from the bank of the San Antonio River...