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...Reverend Jackson will be working closely with me," Mondale declared. "We will be campaigning together." Jackson promptly headed to Virginia, where he met with 13 Southern state party chairmen who told him he would be welcome to campaign in their region. Despite fears that Jackson could become a loose cannon, Mondale's aides clearly prefer the prospect of working along with Jackson to any alternative...
...seemed so vacant or livable since freeways were invented. A strange term, "freeflow conditions," has been revived, and "Black Friday," the first day all the downtown venues were in session at once, has been survived. The most worrisome congestion may be in the sky, where security men, sheiks and chairmen of the board are churning around in helicopter jams. "All of the talk about smog and heat and traffic scared a lot of people away," said Charles O'Connell, the Olympic traffic-operations chief in Los Angeles. "There was a feeling of 'let's not come to L.A. this year...
...employees last week in a press conference carried on closed-circuit TV. Taylor, who was named head of Continental last February, became one of the first victims of the takeover. Both he and President Edward S. Bottum were ousted, although they will remain for an interim period as vice chairmen. The FDIC immediately named new top officers and asked for the resignations of the bank's board of directors. Other resignations of Continental officials are expected to follow...
...Mondale very nearly scuttled all his meticulous plans with an uncharacteristically impulsive act on the eve of the convention: his move to oust Democratic National Committee Chairman Charles Manatt. Presidential nominees usually replace their party chairmen with their own people, but they generally wait until after the convention has ended. Even so, the firing of Manatt would probably not have caused much of a national stir had it not been for Mondale's choice of Bert Lance, President Carter's scandal-tainted Budget Director, to replace him. Whether they liked Manatt or not, and many did not, scores...
...Stone himself if is more humble about his bigtime panhandling skills, which he has honed since being chosen as a co Class Agent for the Harvard College Fund in 1953, and which he now exercises as one of the Harvard Campaign's three national co-chairmen. "I guess I was just the sucker who got tapped," Stone says. "I'm the only one with a really strong business background, and that's why I'm interested in the money matters like the Campaign and the endowment...