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Salute Fired. Champagne and whisky flowed at Promontory, and the nation joined in the celebration. Fire bells pealed in San Francisco, a 100-gun salute was fired in New York, and in Philadelphia the Liberty Bell rang loudly. Today the great age of steel and steam is long past. The Promontory line, which followed the edge of the Great Salt Lake, was replaced in 1903 by a causeway that cut directly across it. The historic trackage was hauled off and melted down to help meet World War II metal shortages. Even the causeway line is now used by only...
...every bad trip in San Francisco takes place in the Haight-Ashbury district. Many straight commuters endure hazardous journeys daily as they try to maneuver through stationary streams of traffic heading for Oakland, Berkeley, Sausalito or suburbs beyond. Unique in many other respects, the San Francisco Bay Area suffers from the prevalent urban malady of too many automobiles, too few highway lanes. But unlike many other metropolitan areas, San Francisco and two neighboring counties are creating an attractive alternative to clogged highways...
...Transit district (BART), a 75-mile network of elevated, surface and subway tracks now under construction, is due to be completed by late 1972. It is a system of grandiose superlatives. First conceived in 1957, BART is primarily funded by a $792 million bond issue passed in 1962 by San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. When inflated costs and design improvements necessitated an additional $150 million this year, the California legislature imposed a special half-cent hike in the three counties' state sales tax. This makes BART the largest locally financed public works project in U.S. history...
...developed so far by the rapidly expanding community mental-health movement. In addition to professional psychiatrists, crisis centers are staffed by a team, including nurses, social workers, lay therapists and clergymen. "The techniques we use are totally unrelated to psychoanalysis," says Dr. Barry Decker, director of clinical psychiatry at San Francisco General Hospital. "The staff takes an active role with patients. Anyone on the team might be able to set up such a rapport that they could play checkers with a catatonic the doctor couldn't even make a dent...
...five Sunday-morning segments proved such a hit that last week they began rerunning in prime time. Six other cities-San Diego, Los Angeles, Boston, Hartford, Cleveland and Garden City, L.I.-have also signed up for the series, as have five New York State educational stations...