Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chicago 13, Atlanta...
Even candidates with no serious opposition get PAC money. Chicago Representative Dan Rostenkowski, for example, received more than $69,000 because he happens to chair a subcommittee dealing with health problems. His contributors included the American Dental PAC, the American Medical PAC and the Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery...
...Chicago, where habits taught by the Daley machine die hard, some citizens complained that paper ballots in one precinct were being deposited in a garbage can because there were no proper boxes. In another precinct, the election supervisor was reported to be reading ballots before putting them in the box. At yet another polling place, Police Officer James Jablonski reported, precinct officials consulted a list of names and repeatedly cast ballots. Explained one with striking candor: "We just have six more to do. These are ghost voters." When an official offered Jablonski a wad of bills if he would forget...
...breed of domestic sometimes works through an agency like Chicago's Broom Hilda service, which, according to Owner Lou Williams, looks for employees with stability, literacy and shared values with the clients. Although Broom Hilda charges customers $6 an hour and pays its workers only $3, it supplies all necessary equipment, handles Social Security forms and offers insurance benefits. Other services, like Mini Maid in Atlanta, send out crews of three or four women who for $25 to $28 can clean a two-bedroom house in 20 to 25 minutes...
Many of the malls were convenient, innovative and handsome. Indeed, the shopping center became a glittering symbol of a modern, efficient America. But even some of its early promoters have had a change of heart. Architect Victor Gruen, who designed suburban Detroit's Northland and Eastland, Chicago's Randhurst and Philadelphia's Cherry Hill, as well as other successful shopping centers, is disillusioned with the ugliness and fast-buck approach of many projects. Says he: "I refuse to pay alimony for those bastard developments...