Word: san
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...learning far more than at their previous schools, and Pacific High graduates have done well on college board exams, a big aid in university admission since the school is not accredited. "If you are insecure, you will really fall apart here," says Betsy Hammer, 16, who quit San Jose's big Lincoln High School, now finds that she actually works harder and enjoys it more. Tom Pillsbury, 16, who was twice suspended from Ignacio Valley High for long hair, is now absorbed in Pacific's touring drama group, which has had its share of troubles. At one Palo...
Died. Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, 56, Congressional Medal of Honor winner in World War II; of multiple sclerosis; in Washington, D.C. As a 31-year-old lieutenant commander on the cruiser San Francisco in a battle off Guadalcanal in November 1942, Mc-Candless was knocked unconscious by a direct hit, recovered to find that all his superior officers were either dead or dying, took command of the fleet flagship himself and so boldly attacked the superior Japanese forces that a major U.S. naval victory resulted as the San Francisco alone disabled a battleship and sank a destroyer...
...San Francisco baseball fans, the 81-acre field near Nob Hill is best known as the longtime home of the Pacific Coast League's Seals, whose stadium was torn down after the team moved away in 1958. But last week workmen were preparing the old grounds for a new and different pitch. And by next spring, bargain hunters instead of ball fans should be swarming into a $9,000,000 shopping complex belonging to one of the nation's largest yet least-known retailers-Manhattan-based Interstate Department Stores...
...marginal operations, Cantor sold or shut down 15 of Interstate's 46 department stores, put the proceeds into acquiring White Front and other discount chains, and expanded them at a rapid pace. This year alone, Interstate will open 15 to 20 new stores, including the San Francisco White Front...
...proved so tightfisted that he accepted bids for only $6,000,000 worth. That netted Sunset a mere $300,000 above the $5,700,000 debt on the properties involved. But the company still had some useful assets, including profitable gas and oil wells, a thriving residential project near San Diego and $17 million worth of losses on its books that Commonwealth can carry forward to reduce its income tax liability on future profits...