Word: mayors
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Early on the day Arthur Christ Agnos was elected the 37th mayor of San Francisco, a violent storm unexpectedly swept across the city, dumping hail, downing power lines, flooding streets. For a brief time chaos reigned. But shortly after the polls closed in last week's runoff election, it was apparent that a bigger gale had been spawned by Agnos himself. The candidate, once a little-known state assemblyman, blew away John Molinari, president of San Francisco's board of supervisors, with an overwhelming 70% of the vote. A voluble former social worker who arrived in San Francisco from Springfield...
Even before Feinstein became mayor in November 1978, following the city hall murders of Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, San Francisco and its environs had developed a reputation that would give heartburn to a Chamber of Commerce. First there was the 1967 Summer of Love, with its easy exchange of drugs and sex in Haight-Ashbury. Then in 1973 came the racially motivated Zebra killings; Agnos, who was seriously wounded after leaving a neighborhood political meeting, was one of the gunman's 18 randomly chosen victims. Next followed the kidnaping of Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst...
...retrenched in its headquarters town. The decline of the city's corporate and charitable base occurred at the same time voters were putting restrictions on further commercial growth, including last month's referendum rejecting plans for a new downtown baseball stadium. "The city is not antibusiness," says the mayor- elect, whose platform attempts to hew to a fine line between the concerns of his neighborhood constituents and the power brokers of old San Francisco. "The people just want to plan the growth...
...produced no new arms- control breakthroughs, Mikhail Gorbachev' s dazzling visit to Washington seemed to herald a new and more personable phase in the 40- year struggle between the U. S. and the Soviet Union. -- Vivacious and voluble, Raisa Gorbachev upstages Nancy Reagan. -- San Francisco' s newly elected mayor, Art Agnos, faces daunting problems...
...game, he thanks the community--not for the win (his boys took care of that)--but for its support. He gives a brief description of his team's efforts on the field, and then launches into a lengthy peroration, giving credit to everyone from the team mascot to the mayor...