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...Carl L. Schaefer...
...care about people," says Baltimore's Mayor William Donald Schaefer. "I I know that sounds silly." It does not sound the least bit silly to his constituents. In the worst and best of times since he was first elected ten years ago, the balding, portly (5 ft. 9 in., 186 Ibs.) executive has doggedly fought city hall sloth, inefficiency, arrogance and red tape. He believes that the city's neighborhoods, with their rich ethnic mix, are Baltimore's greatest asset. He has extracted some $55 million for housing and development beyond the city's federally mandated...
...Schaefer's weapons have been gall, soft soap, hard nose, demonic energy and the kind of showmanship Baltimore had not seen since the death of vaudeville. During a crippling 1974 strike by municipal workers, Hizzoner was out there pitching garbage on a sanitation truck. When the new National Aquarium failed to open by the July 4 deadline he had guaranteed, Willie Don, as they call him, demonstrated his contrition by plunging into the seal pool (temperature 79°) in striped Victorian swimsuit and straw boater, clutching a yellow rubber duck (he is also affectionately known as Donald Duck...
Apart from three years as an Army hospital administrator in Europe during World War II, he has hardly ever left his home town. After a week of 18-hr, days, Schaefer likes to spend Saturdays and Sundays patrolling the neighborhoods in a 1975 Pontiac, furiously jotting "Mayor's Action Memos" about the potholes here, the garbage pileups there, a blanked-out street light in between...
...staunch Democrat who worked his way up through 19 years as a city councilman (he was council president for four years), Schaefer is a master at circumventing city hall bureaucracy. He has managed to push through major ventures like the Inner Harbor redevelopment and the subway now abuilding, by creating a series of quasi-public commissions. On every major civic commitment he has sought direct approval from the voters by referendum; he won all but one of them...