Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...should be a heady, optimistic time for Walter Mondale. The bitter and exhausting primary campaign is a fading memory, and his coronation as Democratic presidential nominee is at hand. It is his golden chance to get the drive against Ronald Reagan off to a rousing start by performing crisply some of the normally pleasant rituals of leadership: selecting a running mate, pulling the party together for the fall campaign, writing the script for the convention that next week will surely hand him the nomination he has so long sought...
...Jane Moore tried to shoot Gerald Ford in San Francisco. The Symbionese Liberation Army was nurtured there. Dan White, the baked-potato vendor and former city supervisor, shot and killed Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone in city hall. Every couple of weeks or so, someone leaps off the Golden Gate Bridge into the deep blue sea. The city suicide rate is half again as high as the nation...
...clothing that can be peeled or added as the sun goes in and out. San Francisco fog does not arrive on little cat's feet. It sluices toward the city from the Pacific Ocean in low, thick clouds that frequently obscure all but the top posts of the Golden Gate Bridge. A local radio announcer once described the approach of a summer fog as "seeing God out there in the ocean with a Reddi-Wip can in his hands...
...brought the singles to Union Street 15 years ago, is still worth a scan, and Rocker Boz Scaggs has opened a bar and country-cookin' restaurant across the street. A couple of blocks west on Fillmore, there are chance encounters aplenty at the Balboa Cafe and the new Golden Gate Grill...
...court's decision, the Big Ten and Pacific-10 conferences had already signed separate provisional TV deals. Oklahoma and Nebraska had also put their fall schedules up for sale, but they were disappointed with the results. "A lot of people felt that the open market would be a golden market," said John Swofford, head of the N.C.A.A.'S football television committee. "I don't think that's going to be the case. I see more games being broadcast, but I see those games worth fewer dollars." With the season openers only eight weeks away, college football...