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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...folks are our future leaders? I can't believe you go to Harvard," an incredulous patrolman Gregory Gilford of the Metropolitan District Commission (M.D.C.) said over his cruiser's loudspeaker...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: 500 Defy Storm, Revel By The River | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

...Clear the bridge before you're thrown off--and I'm not going in after you," Gilford ordered, but dozens lingered. "Tell them to go home and make love," Gilford told a reporter before getting out of his car to chase away the stubborn...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: 500 Defy Storm, Revel By The River | 9/28/1985 | See Source »

...scrambling to address-or dismiss-the problem. Presidential Counsellor Edwin Meese caused a furor last week by dubiously claiming that "people go to soup kitchens because the food is free and that's easier than paying for it." In San Francisco, declares Deputy Mayor Bo-tea Gilford, the homeless are "the most difficult problem we have ever faced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Left Out in the Cold | 12/19/1983 | See Source »

...fill Milk's vacant seat on the board and like Milk a gay activist, said, "The legal system broke down in San Francisco. The federal law is designed to deal with situations where local law enforcement failed on a question of basic values." But Deputy Mayor Rotea Gilford opposes the idea. Said he: "Dan White was tried. A number of people disagree with the result of the trial. But that's our system. What good does it do to rehash it?" The Justice Department is weighing the matter and may come to a decision this month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bitter Legacy | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...Hardy ever have his Tess firsthand. As a young architectural draftsman specializing in church restoration, he courted Emma Gilford, a solicitor's daughter. It proved to be a mismatch worthy of one of his own plots. "What very strange marriages literary men seem to make," Fanny, the wife of Robert Louis Stevenson, remarked after meeting Emma. She might have said the same thing after meeting Florence Dugdale, Hardy's second wife, who suffered from chronic depression. Typing up poetry that addressed Emma as "woman much missed" did little to cheer up the second...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Modern Nerves | 6/21/1982 | See Source »

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