Word: jose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more aesthetic areas, the Sakowitz catalogue vends a day's guitar lessons with Jose Feliciano ($14,500), an ivory day with Peter Duchin at the piano ($3,750), drumming with Buddy Rich ($5,250) and two "Lessons in Conversation" with Truman Capote, lisped at $3,000. There is also a one-day grounding in economics with doom-crying Economic Forecaster Eliot Janeway, whose price ($2,875) would suggest emigration rather than investment...
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...
...little that binds the new women politicians together. Baltimore City Councilwoman Barbara Mikulski, 38, is a feisty old-school campaigner who ran a tough but losing fight against Maryland's Republican Senator Charles Mathias. Janet Hayes edged out a retired police detective to become mayor of San Jose, a sprawling bedroom city south of San Francisco. She terrified the real estate developers, she says, by declaring, "Let's make San Jose better before we make it bigger." Mary Anne Krupsak, New York's new Lieutenant Governor, has been a politician almost since infancy. She went...
...apparently born under some lucky stars. Ordinarily, it would have cost some $150,000 for the telescope alone. Before long, Bruce Weaver, 28, was able to talk Princeton University into providing-on "indefinite loan"-a 36-in. mirror for the reflecting telescope. An astronomer at Lick Observatory near San Jose volunteered to design the instrument free of charge, and a Los Angeles metal fabricator has agreed to build it at cost-about $20,000. In all, well-wishers have donated more than $100,000 in free equipment, including two computers, one of which will control the telescope. The biggest gift...