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Although McGovern carried Mayor Daley's bailiwick of Chicago, he did not do well enough there and lost the state. Nixon garnered the Prairie State's 26 electoral votes with 57 per cent of the popular vote. Republican Senator Charles Percy turned back a challenge from Roman Pucinski as expected with 60 per cent of the vote. In perhaps GOP governor Richard Ogilvie and Democratic challenger Daniel Walker were locked in a tight race that would probably not be decided until the woe hours of the morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How the People Voted Throughout the Country | 11/8/1972 | See Source »

Many residents of large cities afflicted by increasingly frequent blackouts are busily stocking candles in anticipation of summer power failures. But there are less practical reasons for the candle resurgence. "It's the Love Story factor," says Bob Scaringi, owner of Manhattan's newly opened Bailiwick candle shop. "You know, the return to romance and sensitivity, a return to basic sanity." Bailiwick's bewildering variety of candles also helps bring in customers. In addition to the plain-Jane 25? blackout specials, the store sells candles shaped like dodo birds, penguins, onions, eggs, baskets of blueberries, footballs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: More Power to the Candle | 6/21/1971 | See Source »

...indictment of New Jersey's Hudson County Democratic boss John V. Kenny seven weeks ago brought back special memories for TIME Copyreader Madeline Butler, who was raised in Jersey City. Although she has not lived in Kenny's bailiwick since 1957, she vividly recalls what it was like to grow up under his now-vanishing kind of politics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Recollections of a Jersey City Childhood | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

Lisagor modestly attributes his popularity to the fact that he works for a provincial paper. None of his sources, he claims, ever see what he writes. But being a "busher" in the bailiwick of the Eastern press giants has had its drawbacks. Lippmann or Reston could get a Cabinet member by phone, but Lisagor once waited weeks trying to see John Foster Dulles. He got an interview immediately when, on the strength of a New York Times Sunday Magazine assignment, he identified himself as Mr. Lisagor for the Times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Horizontal in Washington | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

...consider himself "result oriented," an empirical, professional problem solver. When he met the press just after his appointment to the Cabinet in December 1968, he said that he was "a generalist," and added that he hoped the President would seek his advice on matters outside the narrow Labor Department bailiwick. Nixon has done just that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The President's (Incremental) Analyst | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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