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...lamenting the fact that "the cornerstone of our economy is based on double-talking, deceitful confidence men." Warming to his subject, Royko added: "No other major industry takes it for granted that we know the salesmen are lying and that they know we know they are lying. Even an alderman tries to keep up an honest front...
...young sons from Chicago's South Side to Evanston four years ago. "It is the only suburb that allows for individuality," she says. "There aren't the same pressures for conformity here. There are so many kinds of people and kinds of circles to choose from." Republican Alderman William Nott, 61, who represents established northwest Evanston, says scornfully: "These independents and liberals want to change things. I'll tell you that a lot of old-time Evanstonians resent them...
...live" than Evanston, says Mrs. Jessie Smith, a welfare mother. But she adds: "We don't want to be pushed down any more." Whites complain of black-white student friction in Evanston Township High School, and there is a tinge of race in rising local taxes. Says Alderman Nott: "Every year more services are demanded for the poor and the blacks. It seems there...
Died. Representative William L. Dawson, 84, oldest member of Congress and for three decades the most influential black in Chicago politics; of pneumonia; in Chicago. First elected city alderman as a Republican in 1933, Dawson switched parties in 1939 and three years later was voted to the first of 14 terms representing the South Side slum wards. The first black committee chairman (Government Operations), he actively opposed the poll tax and fought vigorously for integration of the armed forces. In recent years, younger and more militant blacks had labeled Dawson an Uncle Tom for his close alliance with Mayor Richard...
Mailer in middle age continued to carry himself like a retired welterweight who might be thinking of a comeback, though he now pushed a bank clerk's belly. Age had performed interesting surgery on his face: cast him as a cab-driver, Chicago alderman, Irish cop, dart-champion in a workingman's pub, sly old convict; his face, like that of the late Everett Dirksen, told something of where he had been. Styron's face was a gentle mystery. Smooth for its forty-five years, it had of late come to look maybe a touch soft-trough so unblemished...