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...graduating class of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School last night heard that the city is "under a state of siege" as School Committeeman David J. Holway told the seniors Cambridge would need their help to survive the 1980s...
...Nixon for President in 1967-68. Anderson was one of the oil executives who successfully sought Walter Hickel's nomination as Secretary of the Interior. Hickel was a development-minded governor of Alaska, and ARCO was intent on exploiting its North Slope holdings. Anderson served as a Republican National Committeeman from 1968 to 1972. In 1972, Anderson and eight other ARCO directors gave a total of $62,000 to Nixon's reelection campaign. Twenty-nine ARCO officials could be counted on federal advisory committees...
...facilities, the Republican Governor's pitch proved persuasive. Last week the G.O.P. committee voted, 95 to 52, to hold its July 1980 national convention in Detroit, despite the sniping of a few Southerners who opposed meeting in a Northern city that is heavily black and Democratic. Mississippi G.O.P. Committeeman Clarke Reed commented sarcastically that he was the only white Mississippian ever to visit Detroit, "and I don't want to be the only white man from Mississippi who has been to Detroit twice." Mayor To less Coleman biased Young, who Southern is black, Republicans, tartly Young replied, said...
...Pogo the Clown" costume that he had designed for himself, and often he wore it in making the rounds of children's wards in hospitals. In 1975 Gacy became a trustee of the Norwood Park Township Street Lighting District. Says Robert Martwick, a Democratic Party committeeman: "He was always available for any chore, washing windows, setting up chairs for meetings-even fixing someone's leaky faucet...
...political system. That image was reinforced by Walker & Associates Inc., a Memphis-based political consulting firm that specializes in winning elections for Southern unknowns. "You deserve better than a bunch of politicians swapping jobs," James told delighted audiences. He acknowledged that he had once served as a Republican state committeeman but assured the voters that he was a "born-again Democrat." James won handily with 55% of the vote...