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MARRIED. Joseph Alioto, 62, multimillionaire businessman and former mayor of San Francisco; and Kathleen Sullivan, 33, moderate voice as president of Boston's school committee who is expected to run for mayor in 1979; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan. Alioto divorced Angelina, his wife of 35 years, last August...
DIVORCED. Joseph Alioto, 61; former San Francisco mayor; and Angelina Alioto, 61; after 36 years of marriage, six children; in San Francisco. The Aliotos' domestic troubles became public during his unsuccessful 1974 gubernatorial bid when Angelina disappeared for 17 days (it later turned out she had been touring California missions) and publicly chided her husband for neglecting her. Still pending before the court is the division of Alioto's estimated $6 million estate...
LOOK'S LIBEL. When Look magazine accused San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto in 1969 of being "enmeshed in a web of alliances with ... La Cosa Nostra," Alioto filed a libel suit for $12.5 million. The story, plus other legal troubles (a federal mail-fraud indictment against Alioto was dropped, and he won a civil suit over allegedly improper legal fees), helped to undermine the mayor's ambitions for the California governorship. But three times the libel case went to trial (in 1970, '72, '76), and three times the juries could not agree...
...Alioto wearily lowered his sights. He reduced his claims to $500,000, for "loss of reputation, mortification and hurt feelings," and offered the case to a judge sitting without jury. Last week U.S. District Judge William W. Schwarzer found the now defunct magazine had shown "reckless disregard" for damaging inaccuracies in the article by Freelancers Richard Carlson and Lance Brisson. He awarded Alioto a judgment of $350,000 plus court costs (estimated at about $50,000). Said Alioto: "How sweet it is." Cowles Communications Inc., which published Look, is now primarily an investment firm headquartered in Daytona Beach...
...supervisors meetings, counted on support from San Franciscans who feared their city might suffer the fate of New York. A four-day police and firemen's strike in August showed citizens how determined unions might bully a city into submission. Over the supervisors' protests, outgoing Mayor Joseph Alioto finally caved in and granted raises to end the strike...