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...them: short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding, he resembles not at all the pipe-smoking, tweedy grandees like McGeorge Bundy who have tired for City Council with such disastrous results. Added to his appearance, there are his credentials: Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps, Cedar Grove Civic Association, Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce, Catholic Youth Organization, Knights of Columbus, St. Gregory's Holy Name Society--it is an awesome list for one so young. DiCara has put in years of this type of service, and now he is seeking the payoff...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: ...And Larry DiCara Passes the First Test | 9/22/1971 | See Source »

...curious. Is the odd-looking vessel so strategically placed at the feet of Premier Chou En-lai during audiences with Western visitors [Aug. 23] a spittoon, a good, old-fashioned chamber pot, an incense burner or a Chicom fire extinguisher used for dampening Western overtures? (MRS.) ANDREA R. WALCOTT Kingston, Jamaica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 20, 1971 | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

While the city ruminates on its revised history, the fire will be commemorated in a concert on the lawn of the Chicago Historical Society by the Chicago Chamber Orchestra Association, which will offer its own brand of fireworks: Haydn's "Fire" Symphony, Handel's Royal Fireworks Music, Ives' Fireman's Parade on Main Street and Dittersdorf's The Fall of Phaethon (about a god who burned to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Commemorative Fireworks | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

...Asheville (N.C.) Weekly Advocate, working 60 hours a week for $12. In his spare time, Donnahoe studied law at home, and passed the North Carolina bar exams at 21 without a formal legal education. After moving to Richmond, he served as publicity and research director for the Chamber of Commerce there, studied the science of statistics in off hours, and soon became so expert that he was invited to lecture on the subject at the University of Richmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stock-Market Racing Form | 9/13/1971 | See Source »

South Viet Nam's presidential campaign overshadowed another important election this week. Vietnamese voters went to the polls to select from among 1,297 candidates the 159 who will sit in the House of Representatives. Patterned after the U.S. House, Viet Nam's lower chamber originates the nation's legislation and, with a two-thirds majority, could override a presidential veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Trials of Ngo Cong Duc | 9/6/1971 | See Source »

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