Word: calif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NORMAN MINETA. Normally campaigning 18 hours a day, the popular mayor of San Jose, Calif., defeated Republican George Milias by attacking the Ford Administration's economic summit conferences and WIN buttons as merely "public relations" gimmicks. Mineta, 42, proposed lower interest rates and stronger antitrust action instead. He capitalized on his own record of holding down city property taxes by attracting new business to San Jose and landing federal funds to improve parks and the police and fire departments. Watergate was a factor, since Milias supported Ford's pardon of Nixon while Mineta protested it. Mineta is expected...
...This was the year of the breakthrough for women," declared Frances T. ("Sissy") Farenthold, chairman of the National Women's Political Caucus. In addition to the Democratic triumph of Governor-elect Ella Grasso of Connecticut, Democrat Janet Gray Hayes, 47, of San Jose, Calif., became the first woman mayor of a U.S. city of more than 500,000, and Democrat Susie Sharp, 67, of North Carolina, the first woman chief justice of a state supreme court. For the first time, New York chose a woman, Democrat Mary Anne Krupsak, 42, as Lieutenant Governor, and Californians elected Democrat March Fong...
...lace underwear. Morrie McPherson, of Sycamore, Ill., lucked into one of the biggest beer-can bonanzas in B.C.C.A. history: 60 cases of 25-year-old Goetz Country Club cone-top cans-all unopened-that had been lying in the musty basement of an old bar. Robert Myers of Oakland, Calif, traveled all the way across the continent to Owl's Head, N.Y., after hearing of a lode in the attic of an abandoned railroad station; sure enough, he uncovered thousands of different pre-World War II makes and became overnight the J. Paul Getty of candom...
...Plunkett's athletic triumphs and praise have been matched with personal hardships. His Mexican-American mother, who lives in San Jose, Calif., is blind as was his part-Irish father who ran a tobacco shop before he died in 1969. Plunkett and his two older sisters helped to support their family when they were on welfare. In high school, he worked in gas stations and grocery stores, and between summers in college, he joined construction crews...
...four Republicans who supported Nixon by voting against impeachment and were returned to their seats in the House were Representatives C. Trent Lott (Miss.), Delbert L. Latta (Ohio), Edward Hutchinson (Mich.) and Charles E. Wiggins (Calif...