Word: presidio
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 as a floating dormitory. By apt coincidence, the Society for Traumatic Stress Studies held its convention, as scheduled, in San Francisco last week...
Most of the 1000 people housed in the Red Cross shelter at the huge Moscone Convention Center were moved yesterday to the Presidio army base and to a Navy transport ship, allowing time to prepare for the American Society of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgeons' convention Oct. 30, city officials said...
Though they included such historic military sites as New Jersey's Fort Dix, there is no question that the bases on the commission's roll call had outlived their strategic purposes. San Francisco's Presidio army base, for example, was once a crucial Pacific outpost where officers were trained during World War I. Today the Presidio, with its tree-shaded trails and historic architecture, is a popular tourist destination. Illinois' Fort Sheridan processed 500,000 soldiers during World War II. These days, the base is most famous for a lush golf course...
...down and tails up, sprint across the highway. River and road separate here as the Rio Grande, cutting through deep limestone canyons, makes a wide arc that has given this bulge of Texas the nickname Big Bend. Driving south through Alpine and Marfa, I see the border again at Presidio...
...long mock-up of a bomb propped up in Tucson's El Presidio Park? Why was there a standing-room-only crowd at a Palm Beach, Fla., high school auditorium for a movie about nuclear-blast casualties? And why, in the middle of Iowa, did 200 residents of Pella (pop. 6,700) gather in the town square to listen to a talk about World...