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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chairman of the Merrill Lynch International Banking group, and even the general counsel to the United States Treasury. According to a recent survey which 687 members answered, there are 100 lawyers, almost all partners in firms; 92 doctors; 76 bankers or investors, and 14 writer or editors, with nine in the clergy and nine more unemployed or retired...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: 25 Years of Over-Achieving | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...each election year endorses a slate of candidates who agree to run on the same platform and support the same candidates for mayor and school superintendent. Currently, civic association members hold four of the nine city council slots, and control three of the seven school committee seats...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: CCA Backs Liberal Slate In Election | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...city hall, the demonstrators smashed windows, set nine police cruisers afire and threw bricks at the officers. "You've killed your last fag, you pig!" screamed one protester. "Get out of here, you queer!" a cop shouted back. The toll: 124 people injured, including 59 policemen. When Dan White comes up for sentencing in mid-June, the maximum penalty he can receive is seven years and eight months in prison. Said Moscone's successor, Mayor Dianne Feinstein, of the verdict: "A very hard decision for almost all of us to handle. As I look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Rage in San Francisco | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...worth of liquor and cold food smuggled into their hideaway by trusted assistants. The ill-prepared band soon began to swelter in the small room. They shed their outer clothes, padded around in underwear, and began to get on each other's nerves. Noted Mauzy: "When you get nine egomaniacs together, all nine want to be chief and no one wants to be an Indian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Flight of the Killer Bees | 6/4/1979 | See Source »

...disputed that former San Francisco Supervisor Dan White took a snub-nosed revolver along when he went to call on Mayor George Moscone last November. Or that White slipped into city hall through a window to avoid the metal detector at the main entrance. Or that he pumped nine bullets into Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, killing them both. The only question for the jury at White's trial for murder was whether the defendant really knew what he was doing. At week's end, the jury was still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Getting Off? | 5/28/1979 | See Source »

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