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When they went to the polls to choose a new mayor in a runoff election last week, San Franciscans seemed preoccupied with the plight of a city 3,000 miles away. Both candidates were survivors of a Nov. 4 election that had eleven names on the ballot. Both-Democratic State Senator George Moscone and Republican John J. Barbagelata, a member of the city's board of supervisors-agreed hat the overriding issue of the campaign was not San Francisco's woes but New York City's. "The day of the giveaway is over," said Moscone, 46. Said...
...Runoff day brought a respectable turnout of 65.7%. Moscone picked up a slim early lead, and never led Barbagelata by more than 5,000 votes. In the end, he squeaked through by a count of 101,528 to 97,213-nothing to shout about in what Barbagelata describes as "the most liberal city in the nation...
...Senator James O. Eastland, the state's most potent pol. Lawyer Finch, a former state legislator from Batesville, a sleepy farm town, won the Democratic nomination by upsetting Eastland's candidate, Lieutenant Governor William Winter, with a record 58% of the vote in the August primary runoff; it was the first time that Eastland had backed a loser...
...thermal source hangs a blind light. The sky presses high and clear; the Milky Way lighting out like the veins on a drunkard's nose, delicate filigree work on an ever-widening expanse of blackness. A couple of hundred yards downstream from the thermal we slip into the runoff. The current is scalding and strong. Briggs talks of Charles Manson. The night is black and steamy and lost--except for the blind light and the scissoring beams of cars lurking on the road a half mile away...
After tomorrow's meet at Oxford the groups journeys to Birmingham. England for a runoff on June 15. The track and field at Edinburgh. Scotland, is the next destination and finally the team flies to Dublin, Ireland, to challenge the thinclads from the Emerald Isle...