Word: candlesticks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maine ballot included an advisory measureto ban cruise missile testing in the state, whileSan Francisco, in danger of losing its Giantsbaseball franchise, decided whether to build a new$115 million stadium to replace Candlestick Park...
...specializes in loans for luxury homes. "But I don't think it will have a lasting effect on the market. We closed one deal the day after the quake." Says pollster Mervin Field: "Sure it shook people up. But look at the World Series game that was interrupted at Candlestick Park. A few minutes after the quake, you had 58,000 people chanting 'Play ball! Play ball...
...fleet of dump trucks that came from as far away as Palo Alto (35 miles). Virtually all San Francisco streets were open, though yellow tape still closed off hundreds of sidewalks adjacent to cracked buildings that might yet collapse. The World Series resumed Friday night at Candlestick Park, and even the tourist business showed signs of revival. To prepare for a meeting of 5,000 plastic surgeons, the Moscone Convention Center was forced last week to evict 1,000 homeless people, who were shifted to Army barracks in the Presidio and to the helicopter carrier U.S.S. Pelileu, which served...
This is not to minimize the dazzling feats that the networks and their affiliates were able to pull off. Howard Stringer, the president of CBS Broadcast Group, was parking his car at Candlestick Park when the earthquake hit, and he subsequently spent hours searching for a working telephone or open airport. "It's remarkable that television got satellite feeds out at all, given that things weren't working even at a lower level of technology," he says. San Francisco's two dailies, also without power, had trouble making their deadlines with abbreviated editions, and newspapers across the country relied heavily...
...turned in the most impressive performance. With 14 camera crews, the Goodyear blimp, and savvy sports commentator Al Michaels on hand at Candlestick Park to cover the World Series, its sports division alone could probably have beaten the other networks' news divisions, as it did after the massacre at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Anchoring from Washington, Ted Koppel again proved that he is unsurpassed in the art of extracting facts from chaos. While CBS's Dan Rather was still stressing the "unconfirmed" nature of reports about the collapse of the Bay Bridge, ABC (along with the ever enterprising...