Word: pleasanton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Foreman is a private person who is clearly not comfortable in the presence of inquiring reporters," says Taubman. To penetrate that privacy, Taubman tried to corner his publicity-shy subject at his training camp in Pleasanton, Calif. For a week Taubman shadowed the champion during his daily workouts and while he played with his dogs and horses. One day after a home-cooked meal of frankfurters, the two sat down together in Foreman's house while the champion watched and analyzed old fight films. "Foreman has a certain simple dignity about him," reports Taubman, "an unpretentious quality that...
...training camp in Deer Lake, Pa., overlooking Amish country, could be described as rich rustic. The $200,000 compound consists of five buildings in a log-cabin motif, including a fully equipped gym. Foreman trains in the drab mineral and gem exhibition hall at the Alameda County fairgrounds in Pleasanton, Calif., near Oakland. For dressing quarters he uses the ladies' room...
After workouts this summer, Foreman relaxed at his ranch house in the dry foothills outside Livermore, an agricultural community near Pleasanton. There, behind the locked gates of an imposing cyclone fence, he watched past fights on a video cassette machine, played pool in the downstairs den, and ate the steamed vegetables and lean steaks he prefers (when not training, he relishes fried buffalo fish and gargantuan vanilla ice cream sundaes). But most of all Foreman played with his pets-four dogs and two horses. Foreman is particularly proud of his two German shepherds, Pasha and Daggo. He commands them with...
...turning point in Foreman's life came in 1965 when he joined the Job Corps. His first assignment was at a corps center in Grants Pass, Ore., where he learned carpentry ("I felt I was somebody"). Later he was sent to Pleasanton, where he started...
More than half of them commute daily to jobs or schools in the surrounding area. The Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Worth holds Gestalt therapy sessions as well as providing transactional analysis for the 400 male and 100 female residents. To encourage a sense of responsibility, Pleasanton officials give all residents keys to their own rooms. The rooms, however, cannot be locked from the inside...