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...Boston's John Frederick Collins, 42, has the necessary Irish pedigree but, two generations removed from Cork, represents the new, hard-driving breed of Irish politician typified by the Kennedys. Polio permanently crippled him in 1955 but did not prevent him from winning the mayoralty four years later and setting out to revivify Boston. He has excellent relations with the Yankee hierarchy that rules Boston's business and finance, is the ablest mayor that the city has had since James Michael Curley first flexed his young muscles. In typical Boston fashion, Collins believes that "there is a little...
...taken in three-fourths of its 600,000 Puerto Rican citizens since World War II. Often unskilled and unemployed, the newcomers are forced to live in dark and dingy tenements at exorbitant rents, often five or six to a room. They cause a drain on city welfare programs, often breed racial conflict...
Quite a Relief. Westminster immediately brought Simon a windfall in dog food testimonials and television appearances. It also assured the West Highland terrier breed of an upsurge in popularity, though that can be a questionable blessing. "Popularity is a curse," says Handler Larry Carswell, a spaniel specialist. "People want to be able to say, I got one like the one that won at . . .' or 'This is a distant cousin of the one who won at . . .' There's indiscriminate breeding right away. Pretty soon you can buy one at Macy's." But Ch. Elfinbrook Simon...
...past six years, poodles have strutted off with Westminster's Best in Show prize four times. The result: a fabulous rise in poodle popularity. Seventh in 1956, with 25,041 American Kennel Club registrations, they have trebled in number, have been the U.S.'s most popular breed for the past two years...
...narrator is a giant of a man, the half-breed son of an Indian chief. Scarred by World War II and his white mother's destruction of his proud father, he opts out of things so completely that for years the staff of the mental hospital have believed him to be deaf and dumb. His skewed observation of the ward-world is well managed; the reader has a vivid sense both of "the Chief's" sick perceptions and of the reality behind them...