Word: chicago
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Small favors can also loom large in an off-year election. Carter pleased Chicago Mayor Michael Bilandic by inviting him to fly aboard Air Force One to attend Pope Paul's funeral last August. The President will spend the night at Bilandic's home when he campaigns in Chicago in early November. But in Ohio Carter irritated Cuyahoga County Chairman Tim Hagan by inviting Cleveland Mayor Dennis Kucinich to the White House. The hotheaded young mayor has antagonized Hagan and other party leaders by refusing to endorse most of the local Democrats. Last week Hagan joined other Democrats...
...charges, who first introduced race as an issue in the charter fight. Rizzo is concentrating his campaign on the working-class sections that have solidly supported him in the past. At Palumbo's Cafe in South Philadelphia, he told a group of a hundred or so supporters: "In Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Newark, there is no limit on mayors' terms. That's the American way. I'm a full-time mayor. I don't play tennis. I don't jog. My whole life is dedicated to this city...
...simple life portrayed by Estes turns out to have been an elaborate front. Last week federal prosecutors disclosed in a Fort Worth courtroom that as early as 1974, Estes was back wheeling and dealing. One deal involved conning a leasing operation of Borg-Warner Corp. of Chicago and other firms into paying for some nonexistent steam cleaners, used in washing down oilfield equipment. Estes then arranged for Wallace Oil Co. to pretend to lease some of the phantom cleaners. When the Chicago firm sent a representative to see its equipment, he was, according to a Justice Department official, "given...
Across most of the non-Communist world, Wojtyla's election was warmly greeted, particularly in cities with large enclaves of Polish émigrés, like Chicago. Polish Americans were unabashedly proud. For the first time, the Atlanta Constitution's Clifford Baldowski signed one of his cartoons "Baldy Baldowski" instead of simply "Baldy": his drawing showed the new Pope writing a proclamation that said: "No more Polish jokes." Non-Poles, too, quickly identified with the "foreign" Pope as one of their own. "It is as if a Third World Cardinal had won," said Brazilian Paulo Cardinal Evaristo Arns. In Australia, where...
Simon was brought up in Milwaukee and earned his doctorate in political science from the University of Chicago in 1943. For the past two decades he has been a leader in the drive to create artificial intelligence through computer technology. Says he: "My mind works according to laws and mechanisms, not some mysterious mind fluid." In his 29 years at CMU, Simon has proved a talented administrator and teacher. A painter and pianist, Simon also served on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Lyndon Johnson...