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Memo to football fans: forget Super Bowl XXV in Tampa next Jan. 27. The real National Football League game of the year will be in San Francisco's Candlestick Park on Dec. 3, when the defending Super Bowl-champion 49ers collide with the New York Giants. When they met a year ago, the 49ers won 34-24; expectations about the battle to come have been climbing alongside the win-loss statistics of both teams, which have achieved historic heights...
...those who have to work must cram their shopping into a few frantic hours in the evenings or on Saturday mornings. Planning a weekend dinner party? Best to have the menu set by Thursday night. That way you can spend the next day going from butcher to baker to candlestick maker, purchasing the ingredients. (Germans still prefer to shop the old- fashioned way, buying a few things at a time at a multitude of stores.) But don't forget the Mittagspause, the lunch break that most mom-and-pop stores dutifully observe...
...started with the October Classic, which became in a few brief moments the October Nightmare. Candlestick Park shook, major league baseball shuddered and the World Series was split by tragedy. Debates raged about whether or not the Series should be finished, but for all intents and purposes--both competitively and in terms of fan interest--it was over the moment our television screens went blank...
...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...
...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...