Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cleveland's troubles grow
...brief police strikes, a wildcat walkout by municipal mechanics, 23 vetoes of city council legislation, continual scrambles to meet employee payrolls -it's been a tough nine months for Cleveland and Dennis Kucinich, 31, the nation's youngest big-city mayor. Last week it got tougher...
...Cleveland had to decide whether or not to retain the mayor with the face of a clever schoolboy and the bite of a barracuda. The recall election was forced by Kucinich's enemies, who issued their challenge after he had fired popular Police Chief Richard Hongisto. Battling for his job, Kucinich claimed he was being hounded by "the bosses" because he fought for "the people." He won-barely. With fewer than half of the voters going to the polls, the mayor's strongholds among the white working-class ethnics, carried the day by 236 votes...
...Sales of the diversified Cleveland-based maker of auto components, electronic and electrical equipment have nearly doubled since 1972, to $3.3 billion, but energy consumption has declined by 19%. Unnecessary machine runs have been eliminated; the number of ventilating fans cut by a quarter; and air conditioning is now reduced an hour before some plants close...
...Juilliard. At Ohio he majored in math and music, and even considered a career in dentistry. "I still thought that classical music was somebody sitting in a symphony and playing things that you didn't understand," says Stoltzman. But after some lessons with Clarinetist Robert Marcellus of the Cleveland Orchestra, he decided on graduate work in music at Yale...