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Some cities have added oral exams and simulation exercises. In Corpus Christi, Texas, contenders for the job of police chief had to face interrogation by real reporters at a mock news conference. For many of those cramming for such challenges, major life choices are at stake. Jeanette Dice, 26, and her husband Brian, 31, both took the New York sergeant's exam last week. If she passes, says Dice, "I could take off for a year, have a baby, then go back to work and have enough money to hire a sitter." Otherwise? "I might look somewhere else...
...average workingman and -woman," he drawled earnestly. "I've been on the side of the small farmers." Standing in front of a monument to Confederate heroes in South Carolina, Pat Robertson reminded his audiences that "I went to school where Robert E. Lee was president." In heavily Hispanic Corpus Christi and San Antonio, Michael Dukakis appeared in TV commercials, speaking fluent Spanish...
...Houston Attorney Joseph Jamail and his firm, Pennzoil's victorious counsel, doled out $248,000 in campaign contributions to the justices. As for Russell McMains, Texaco's chief appellate lawyer in Texas, he has donated some $40,000 to members of the high bench, and his former Corpus Christi firm gave $150,000 more. Such cozy bench-polishing tactics are not illegal, since Texas is one of only nine states where virtually all judges are chosen in partisan elections. It also has no limits on campaign gifts. "The appearance," says State Senator Frank Tejeda, "is that perhaps justice in Texas...
...With Mario Cuomo on the sidelines, Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, is the only claimant to give-me-your-tired-your-poor ethnicity. But this first-generation heritage can also make Dukakis seem like a political outsider, especially in the South. Introducing him at a speech in Corpus Christi, Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro said, "Governor, when I saw the two k's in your name, I can tell you we've never had a Dukakis run for anything in Texas...
...road doing mostly one-night stands. They wake up in time to make the bus, travel much of the day to a new theater, play their parts, then adjourn to a hotel till bus call the next morning. Thus pass strings of small cities: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi; Pueblo, Albuquerque, El Paso. Four months into the tour, everyone is tired, everyone feels cut adrift, almost everyone suffers from a cough known as the "bus crud." The play, coincidentally, is a musical confection, On the Twentieth Century, about the giddy, romantic life of theatrical types traveling cross-country...