Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rebellious Jane Byrne knocks out the mayor of Chicago...
They were not laughing last ? week. The plucky Byrne knocked Bilandic out of office, winning the Democratic nomination as the party's candidate for mayor by some 17,000 votes out of more than 800,000 cast. She not only beat the machine but Chicago's business and newspaper establishment, which supported the incumbent. Byrne is an overwhelming favorite to win next month over her little-known opponent, Republican Stockbroker Wallace Johnson...
What would happen, for instance, if delegates from all the Ivy League schools, Stanford, M.I.T. and the University of Chicago went down to the University of Pennsylvania, spent four days discussing common problems and possible solutions, agreed on principles of action, and went back home to work on these issues, while nobody really knew that a conference had occurred? Well, you would have the Little 11 conference, which took place February 22 through 25 in Philadelphia...
...tournament final, Acosta, a senior, fell to Pat Keefe of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Keefe, a former National Juniors Champion, came from behind to gain a 21-14 victory in the first game of the match--the Harvard star's first loss of the tournament...
...million devotees, easily double the number of only two years ago, it is the country's fastest-growing winter sport. "It is bigger than the bowling boom of the '50s, the tennis boom of the '60s and the running boom of the '70s," says Chicago's Morrie Mages, owner of the country's largest sporting-goods store, who has seen his sales of cross-country ski equipment increase fivefold in the past year alone. In California, ski resorts that two years ago had only 100 to 200 cross-country skiers a weekend, today...