Word: alameda
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...Baedeker of the nation's most wretched hoosegows would have to include Little Greystone, part of the Alameda County jail complex in Pleasanton, Calif. Once a model prison, that Kafkaesque wooden barracks has in the past decade or so become a cesspool of rapes, beatings and illnesses. A U.S. district court in 1972 declared conditions there a violation of the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment...
...natural-gas leak led to an explosion and fire that wiped out three stores and damaged three others. At the Alameda Plaza Hotel, President Philip Pistilli grieved, "It's catastrophic-the bakeshops, our production kitchens, ballroom, six meeting rooms, food storage areas, all gone." Across the state line in Overland Park, Kans., nearly 35% of the homes were affected by the deluge...
...progressive tradition to the court itself. He has named Rose Elizabeth Bird, 40, California's Agriculture and Services Secretary, to be not only the first woman on the seven-member court but also the chief justice. At the same time, Brown appointed the court's first black: Alameda County Superior Court Judge Wiley W. Manuel...
Reagan, too, planned to reach Kansas City early, settling into the sweeping elegance of the Alameda Plaza to wage his eleventh-hour fight to prevent an early Ford victory. His campaign manager, John Sears, would direct operations from a 50-ft. trailer outside the glistening arena, working the convention floor through Nevada Senator Paul Laxalt and a batch of assistants. Both camps had their carefully prepared charts on how each delegate might vote-and they were poised to pounce on anyone who deviated from the expected. After nine long months of campaign labors, no one last week could be sure...
Susanne Mageras Alameda, Calif...