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...Super Bowl time, and the tale of two cities, Denver and Dallas, is shouted antiphonally from towering stadium tiers: It is the best of times! It is the best of times! It is the season for bumper stickers and bunting and bragging in bars, for celebration and civic pride. Time for whimsy and WE'RE NO.l!, for good cheer and bad bets. It is a time warp, where the young dream of growing up and the old remember youth, and in the delirious identification with a winning football team, neither fantasy nor reminiscence seems foolish. The game becomes a bond...
...Manila street sweepers were the first to arrive, dressed in their spectacular red gloves, pants and hats and yellow shirts. They were followed by nurses, municipal office employees and flag-waving members of the Kabataang Barangay, a civic beautification organization for teenagers. Before long the Quezon and Jones bridges, which siphon cars across the Pasig River into Manila's downtown Ermita district, were too clogged for the traffic to move. By the time President Ferdinand Marcos, First Lady Imelda, Daughter Irene and Son Bongbong reached the Luneta grandstand in Rizal Park, fully 1.6 million supporters were jammed in front...
...spoke up, however, was former Senator Jovito Salonga, whose oratorical skills match those of Marcos. "If 90% of the population loves him," Salonga asked 300 University of the Philippines students, "why does he need martial law?" Former President Diosdado Macapagal, meanwhile, made the rounds of the city's civic clubs. "Sixty thousand people have been arrested over the past five years," Macapagal told his audiences. "Let him run in a free election, and he'll get a worse beating than Indira Gandhi...
...served up his new Philadelphia Journal, a breezy morning tabloid with an initial circulation of 200,000. The Journal's salient contribution to the state of journalism is a daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half of its 60-odd pages to sports and most of the rest to staff-written tales of local crime and kindness (FIREBOMB HORROR; BOXER STILL LOVED DESPITE CHARGES). The Journal has no editorial page. "I like news," says Péladeau, "and my papers...
Seattle is now enjoying the benefits of another of Ellis' grand plans, known as Forward Thrust. Voters in 1968 approved $334 million in bonds to finance 615 civic improvement projects in Ellis' package. Freeway Park, for instance, a five-acre area of greenery and waterfalls, was built on a great lid placed over a downtown thoroughfare. The program, which scattered parks and swimming pools all over town, also financed the $59.8 million stadium that Kingdome, a covered stadium that literally made Seattle a big-league city. It is the home of the Seahawks (football), the Sounders (soccer...