San Francisco: Detroit of the Pacific?

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

The skyscrapers that shattered the myth of San Francisco as a special city; and why it's important to understand the Stockholm syndrome in the Patty Hearst kidnap case.

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Fri 7 Jun 197421:00

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