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...Daley summoned the state's top political leaders to a marathon Sunday meeting to discuss the fate of Hanrahan. After heated argument, the caucus decided that Hanrahan had to go. Next day, Cook County's 80 ward and township committeemen met to vote to replace him on the ticket with Raymond Berg, chief judge of the traffic court. They had little time to make the change official. If Berg was going to qualify, they had to have about 6,000 names on petitions by 5 o'clock that afternoon. City business was ignored as jobholders scurried around...
...help. Father Leonard Burke organized the parents of about 200 children, most of whom continued to attend Fifield in defiance of the edict; school officials allowed them in the classrooms, though the children were not registered for credit. Picket lines were set up around the homes of school committeemen who had voted for the busing plan...
...reformers offset Mrs. Harris' two most obvious advantages by enlisting black Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm to nominate Hughes. Labor countered with what Hughes decried as "savage tactics." Some state committeemen were warned that unless they voted for Mrs. Harris, they could forget about A.F.L.-C.I.O. money for next year's congressional campaigns. The most powerful persuader, though, was Old Pro O'Brien. Rumors floated about that O'Brien would resign if Mrs. Harris was not elected. He personally swung at least ten votes only hours before the election...
...into the business of bankrolling films about Harvard is Harvard itself. Its popular documentary identifying demonstrators at the recent antiwar rally at Sanders Theatre is still touring the disciplinary circuit, and already the University has produced another flick which will probably be making the rounds with admissions committeemen for years to come. Those wondering if an independent producer can still make family pictures should take heart: Experience makes the Victory at Sanders Theatre documentary look like Night of the Living Dead...
President Pusey has praised Wilson's CRR as having "functioned courageously, discerningly, and effectively through the year." (President's Report 1969-70) Perhaps words like courage need redefining for bureaucrats. I always thought of courage as "grace under pressure" or some other Hemingwayesque definition. For bureaucrats and committeemen, however, courage seems to be something more like "invisibility under pressure...