Word: oaklanders
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DIED. SIDNEY KINGSLEY, 88, playwright; in Oakland, New Jersey. Kingsley's stage works were known for their flinty realism and social crusading. Dead End decried the slums of New York, inspiring New Deal public-housing legislation (forever tagging the young actors who appeared in the film version as "The Dead End Kids"). The 1933 Pulitzer-prizewinning Men in White proselytized for abortion rights-and created much of the narrative vocabulary for all medical melodramas that followed. Kingsley's 1949 blend of Freud and fisticuffs, Detective Story, had a similar impact on the now ubiquitous, then trailblazing cops-and-crooks...
...GLORY DAYS, THE MORRISON Knudsen company helped create the very fabric of America by building such megastructures as the Hoover Dam, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and the Trans-Alaska pipeline. By last week, however, the 83-year-old construction firm, based in Boise, Idaho, was struggling to survive a devastating corporate crackup. Just six weeks after directors ousted the charismatic William Agee as chairman and chief executive officer, the company was frantically seeking $125 million in new bank loans needed by the end of this week to avert a bankruptcy filing. And with losses mounting, shareholders suing...
...rise up and turn what seemed to be solid ground into something like a quaking bowl of Jell-O. In both Kobe and the Marina district of San Francisco, site of the worst damage from the 1989 Loma Prieta quake, liquefaction proved disastrous; the same could happen in the Oakland area across San Francisco Bay. Warns Ross Stein, Geological Survey physicist in Menlo Park, California: ``Kobe is almost a dress rehearsal for an earthquake on the Hayward fault in the East...
...estimate, Californians have suffered $32 billion in disaster damages just since 1989. Even in an off year like 1991 -- the Oakland fire storm, a deep freeze, a drought -- the catastrophe tab came to $3 billion. Enter this, the first setback of 1995, into the ledger then, and it looks like a drop in the bucket, the past being prologue...
...into the sunset of my life," he wrote. "I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead." The swell of sympathy and affection was instantaneous and overwhelming, from the man on the street to Bill Clinton. Speaking Saturday night at a political rally in Oakland, California, the President said that Reagan's letter had "touched my heart," and the news brought gasps from the crowd of Democrats...