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Soglin, as alderman, helped push through a bill enabling the city to take over Madison's failing private bus line and has since got $2.135 million in federal grants for buying new equipment. As a result of improvements made during his administration, ridership on the bus line is up 17% in the last year. The mayor has also tightened housing inspection procedures, started a fund to provide loans for home rehabilitation, and opened city government to more people. Of the 370 people Soglin has named to city committees, 47.7% have been women and, in a city where only...
Covering a string of one-night stands is nothing new for Fischer. "It's like a presidential election campaign transplanted to an exotic clime," he says, recalling his days aboard George McGovern's rattling bus-train-airplane caravan two years ago. "But in this case, the fatigue is compounded by the difference in time zones between the U.S. and the Middle East." Fischer had expected to recover from transatlantic jet lag during the President's stopover in Salzburg, Austria, but it was in Salzburg that Secretary of State Kissinger threatened to resign, and sent the press corps...
More than 300,000 exuberant, cheering Egyptians lined the seven-mile route as the two Presidents rode in an open limousine to Cairo. They perched atop walls, perilously packed balconies, clung to lampposts, balanced from bus windows and roof ledges. Bands of white-turbaned men wearing flowing blue galabias played primitive reed flutes in Nixon's honor. American flags fluttered, and the sky rained red, white and blue confetti. Amid the ubiquitous (if unflattering to Nixon) portraits of the two Presidents, signs in Arabic and English blossomed and bobbed: WE TRUST NIXON. GOD BLESS NIXON. KEEP IT UP, NIXON...
...America's wealthiest blacks live in suburbs hardly distinguishable from those inhabited by whites. Few white-owned ante bellum homes are more sumptuous than the black-owned mansions surrounded by dogwood and magnolia trees. Atlanta is said to be the only city in the nation that offers bus tours of the black sections of town...
...University secretaries to leave work early enough to be home before dark. The Harvard policy issued 800 whistles to students, and pressed an educational campaign urging students to be watchful for scuffles but not to become involved. They offered to supply rides for anyone stranded away from a bus line. In January, Bok's committee released an interim report which stressed furthering security activity...