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...year the job had been hers on loan. When San Francisco Mayor George Moscone was shot and killed by Daniel White during a political dispute, Dianne Feinstein was appointed mayor by the board of supervisors, which she served as president. Last week Feinstein, 46, became mayor on her own and established herself as the city's leading political power as well as its first woman chief executive. In a hard-fought election, she defeated Quentin Kopp, her conservative and abrasive challenger...
...distinguished, and an ancestor, Richard Stockton, had signed the Declaration of Independence. Free to do what she pleased, the heavyset, attractive blond worked as executive secretary of the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, served as vice president of the Friends of the New Jersey State Museum, and sat on the board of the Salvation Army. Her restoration work almost completed, E.J., 37, finally moved into her Mercer Street home last September. She told friends: "I want to see Trenton regain its dignity...
Perhaps most remarkable, considering recent taxpayer resistance to any expenditure at all for schools, the Boise school board accepted the most expensive ($3.1 million) of four designs for its Amity Elementary School. It uses solar panels to heat its hot water, but this is the least of its innovations. The greater part of the 26-room school is underground. Heating and lighting costs are about 60% of what would be expected for a conventional school of the same size. The kids seem to love what is now known as the "Idaho potato cellar...
...morale is high. Even though time clocks and foremen's whistles have been thrown out, Company Chief Broadwater believes workers are putting in longer hours. "We're not martyrs, we just want to see this place go," says Union Leader Ciarniello, who attends board meetings. "I'd make a deal with the devil to keep this place open...
...troubled ... that in a free society I have to convince an editor that I'm a bona fide candidate." Nevertheless, Brown tried to do just that: he made several trips to the state, set up a campaign committee, met with the newspaper's editorial board and generally paid the Hawkeye State the kind of homage that the Register felt was fitting and proper. Last week the editors finally extended him an invitation...