SOME INGREDIENTS IN THE STEAMING HORmonal stew that is American adolescence: For Prom Night last week, senior class officers at Benicia High School in California assembled some party favors — a gift-wrapped condom, a Planned Parenthood pamphlet advocating abstinence and a piece of candy. “We know Prom Night is a big night for a lot of people, sexually,” senior Lisa Puryear told the San Jose Mercury News.
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Golden Gate Bridge Suicide-Barrier Plan Inches Forward
It takes four seconds to fall the 220 feet from the Golden Gate Bridge to the waters of the San Francisco Bay below.
Matisse’s American Patrons
The traveling exhibition of gouache cutouts done by Henri Matisse in his last years has been admired lately in Manhattan and Chicago, but at San Francisco's Museum of Art last week the show had a unique and poignant meaning.
PERSONALITIES: Bunting’s Bet
When it comes to making important changes in interest rates, the big-time bankers of New York, Chicago and San Francisco have recently taken a back seat to Philadelphia's John R. Bunting, the controversial chief of the First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co.
CALIFORNIA: The Lost Child
It was a bright, peaceful California afternoon in San Marino, and the children raced each other across the lot—little Kathy Fiscus, 3, her sister Barbara, 9, and her cousin Gus Lyon, 5. Kathy fell behind
Kaiser Scores Another
Shipbuilder Henry J. Kaiser outdid himself last week.
Burma: The Lady Walks Free Again
In a tragic place scented by tropical blooms, it was the simplest of gestures. On Nov
San Francisco: Opening the Gate
For all the fabled glamour of its topless towers and clanking cable cars, San Francisco is a city of anguished minorities. They range from the black ghetto of Hunters Point, scarred by riot in 1966, to the hippie enclave of Haight-Ashbury, from the convoluted alleys of Chinatown to the psychedelic strip-and-clip joints of North Beach, encompassing en route labor unions, symphony lovers and Mayor Joseph L
Music: San Francisco Goes Big Time
A lot of little misses at Davies Hall may yet make a hit Building a large concert hall is one of the grand gambles a city can make. The latest to try its luck is San Francisco, which opened Louise M.
Spanking Debate: Do Spanked Kids Have Lower IQs?
The debate over spanking goes back many years, but the essential question often evades discussion: Does spanking actually work? In the short term, yes.