White Plains (AFS 4) - Naval Cruise Book

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SAN FRANCISCO: Narrow, sleek-looking streets like carved ribs, sliding and coasting down hills. . . a city that overwhelms the senses. Yet can tal k to you with a quiet smile or take you by the hand through its bones of stone and concrete like a Pied Piper. . .as you follow helplessly, enthralled.. . LIKE a masted schooner, so too do the lines and riggings ofthe city cross and criss-cross, in a maze of confusion. . . and beauty .... THE city is: steep hills and steeper buildings, business-like, long haired and beaded. .. flower loved and green. . .a symphony of cable cars clanging their groaning rhythms up Powell Street .. .a deeper beat of soul and fingers chanting out a percussion of wow and unstopable head-ness with everyone movingto the colors. . . while on the otherside of the world, right along Grant Street, is the other side of the world in its dragon-hued Chinese and the narrowest of streets .... AND too, the city is sometimes quiet. .. an antique silence. . .with an early Sunday morning sadness. . .or patience, about it. .. still boats, with telephone pole masts pointing to God. . .mute doorways.. .solitary old men counting pavements with slow shuffling stares or lining benches and concrete like retired chess pieces .... San Francsco 3 nv i '

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it Q Table of Contents San Francisco The Philippines Life at Sea Command Ship's Company On the Line Ports of Call Special Events All Hands

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