Word: bay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California ever becomes a prosperous country, this bay will be the center of its prosperity. The abundance of wood and water, the extreme fertility of its shores, the excellence of its climate, which is as near to being perfect as any in the world, and its facilities for navigation, all fit it for a place of great importance...
When Richard Henry Dana wrote these observations in his diary at Christmastime, 1835, San Francisco Bay was 700 square miles of pristine majesty. In the years since, the building of the "place of great importance" has exacted its toll. Piers, salt ponds, rotting ship hulks, human detritus and a land-hungry urban complex have reduced that water area to 420 square miles. This week forces were mobilizing in San Francisco to end the shrinkage...
...save-the-bay movement came to a head when a corporation called West-bay Community Associates announced plans to develop a residential-commercial-recreational complex along 27 miles of presently submerged bayshore south of San Francisco. Three days later, the state's Bay Conservation and Development Commission released another plan that was a clean-cut challenge to the Westbay proposal. The only bay filling that might henceforth be justified, it said, would be for projects "providing substantial public benefits" that could not be gained otherwise-port terminals, airport extensions and "close-to-home" recreation facilities like marinas, beaches, parks...
...night. All those unnerving incidents soon had the stagehands muttering, and production lagged five days behind schedule until Vanessa and Co-Star Franco Nero, her constant companion since they made Camelot together, calmed the crew by holding midnight séances to keep the ha'nts at bay. "I regard the supernatural with great excitement," Vanessa said bravely...
...measures." Seeking more support, he wooed Southern segregationists, and lost Northern-liberal respect in the process-most notably after he had succumbed to Roman Catholic pressure groups by offering federal aid to parochial schools in his education legislation. When the bills died in 1961, amid the Bay of Pigs disaster, says Wicker, Kennedy lost Congress-and at his death in 1963, was widely regarded as close to presidential failure...