Word: san
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NANCY STEPHENS San Antonio...
...learn that two-thirds of Harvard blacks are second-generation college students and that three-quarters went to predominantly white high schools, that former Afro president Jeff Howard thinks "Afro-American Studies is the manifestation of a few political realities just as much at fair Harvard as at San Francisco State,"and that whites are ill-advised to try instantly to pump black acquaintances for their views on the Problem. Harlon Dalton's introduction, provocatively addressed to those "for whom the Black experience is not a birthright," is terribly convincing: on the evidence of these pages, there is a great...
Publisher Charles Gould of the San Francisco Examiner says he has turned away "tens of thousands of dollars" in advertising that he found overly offensive. Still, the Examiner went ahead and ran the Sister George ad unretouched. Another display ad showed a motorcycle gang from Naked Angels closing in on a near-nude girl. The copy read, "Mad dogs from hell! Hunting down their prey with a quarter-ton of hot steel between their legs...
...Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty was right in claiming that he faced a "vicious racist campaign" in his drive for re-election against City Councilman Thomas Bradley. The proof, quipped San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Arthur Hoppe, was the fact that Bradley made "a blatant appeal for the Negro vote...
Born in Hawaii, Hoppe grew up in San Francisco, earned a Harvard liberal arts degree in 1949, then joined the Chronicle as a copy boy. He has been married to his childhood sweetheart for 23 years, likes to cruise with his wife and four children on their three "yachts" -two eight-foot sailboats and a 14-footer. His column now appears in 100 newspapers, and he is embarrassed by how easily he can pick up an extra $1,100 any time he gives a lecture. Hoppe gets his ideas for five columns a week, he says, by "reading through...