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The St. Mary's Chinese Girls Drum and Bugle Corps of San Francisco kept a promise in Washington, D.C., today, and the dignity of his new office vanished as President Kennedy broke into a delighted smile that turned into an incredulous guffaw. For down Pennsylvania Ave., their Oriental robes whipping in the cold breeze, smartly stepped the little Chinese girls playing, "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." They were paying off a debt to the Hibernian Club of San Francisco for helping to finance their trip to Washington. — Jan. 20 Seven Abraham Lincoln High School students were arrested as drunks after one of them passed out in a school corridor. — Feb. 3 Man, it was the worst. "Groovy and gruesome with these 50 or 60 cats and chicks coming on like when it was gone there just wasn't going to be any more. The gig was at this crazy pad down at 442 Bay St. And it was up, up, up, man, really blowing a storm, when the fuzz made the scene and put it down, down, down. That's what it was like early yesterday in the heart of beatsville when a group of the beard and beret set gathered to observe the day of the good St. Patrick." — March 19 The Soviet Union announces it has won the race to put a man in space. The cosmonaut is identified as Yuri Gagarin. — April 12 Bay of Pigs invasion fails: Cuban Government radio claims victory over the invasion force which landed in Cuba Monday. — April 20 SLATE, the University of California's political organization, protests the cancellation of a scheduled campus speech by Malcolm X. (Little), a leader of the Black Muslims. — May 6 "You know, I felt a lot better at Inchon," the young Berkeley minister told me as he stepped off a Freedom Rider train here in Jackson, Miss. Three minutes later he and 12 other Bay Area Freedom Riders were arrested for integrating the white waiting room and refusing to move on when ordered. — June 20 All-Star Game at Candlestick Park: Giants pitcher Stu Miller relieves in the ninth. On his very first pitch, the wind literally blows him off the mound. Umpire calls balk, but National League goes on to win in 10th, 5-4. — July 12 Police raid Tay-Bush Cafe at Taylor and Bush, arrest 103: Police Sgt. James Ludlow, in plainclothes, said one of the circumstances that influenced him was the sight of 25 couples dancing, and only one person was a woman. — Aug. 14 Jose Sarria, first openly gay man to run for public office, polls 5,613 votes, but finishes 29th in field of of 33 candidates for five supervisorial seats. — Nov. 8 The meteoric sport of professional hockey will blaze across the San Francisco firmament tonight in what well could be the dawn of a new athletic era for northern California. San Francisco's Seals, newest entry in the Western Hockey League, will host the volatile Edmonton Flyers at the Cow Palace. — Nov. 17 |
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