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Last week, overriding a veto by Mayor Joseph Alioto, the city's board of supervisors approved a new law that prohibits landlords from refusing to rent to families with children. Violations will subject offenders to fines...
...Besides, Alioto warned, the prospect of widespread litigation "will set up an aura of Inquisition in San Francisco...
...harassed superintendents believe that a move can be therapeutic. San Francisco's new school chief, Robert Alioto (no kin to Mayor Joseph Alioto), admits that he was not sorry to leave his old superintendent's job in Yonkers, N.Y., because there the president of the local teachers' union "has a strong dislike for me." Some shell-shocked superintendents maintain that true peace is possible only through retirement. After wrestling thanklessly with budget problems for two years, Alflorence Cheatham resigned as the Cambridge, Mass., superintendent last spring, citing poor health. Says he: "There is only so much...
...mayors of many U.S. cities in this hot summer, the threat of ghetto riots is less of a worry than a newer danger: bankruptcy. At the annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Boston last week, San Francisco's Joseph Alioto warned some 350 anxious municipal chiefs, "The seeds of New York are in every American city." To prevent a bitter harvest, the mayors called for yet more federal aid to augment increasingly burdensome local taxes. They urged Congress to pass President Ford's proposal to share $39.8 billion in federal revenues with states and cities over the next...
Separated. San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto, 59; and Angelina Alioto, 59, his wife of 33 years. Mrs. Alioto startled her husband last year by disappearing for a 17-day tour of California missions during Alioto's unsuccessful gubernatorial bid, later chiding him publicly for neglecting her. Last week the mayor said he was startled once again, when a reporter phoned his office in midday to disclose that Angelina had filed for divorce, asking the court for alimony and a substantial chunk of Alioto's estimated $6 million estate...