"If Shirley Black's middle name were Smith," said one of her foes in next week's California llth Congressional District primary, "she would not be running for Congress." But it isn't, and she is, and Shirley Temple Black is in the midst of an increasingly sulfurous campaign that is giving San Mateo County's half-million people a colorful spectrum of choice.
The district, represented for 15 years by the late J. Arthur Younger, a conservative Republican, is in a state of demographic flux. Though the sunny "peninsula," as San Mateo County is called, is populated largely...
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