Word: cooke
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...Georgia's Fifth District (Atlanta), Civil Rights Leader Andrew Young, 40, a black, edged out Republican Rodney M. Cook, 48, a state legislator and insurance broker. Once noted for his mediating abilities as the executive director of Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Young had to tightrope-walk the busing issue throughout his campaign. While Cook said that he would support a constitutional amendment against busing, Young suggested that busing could be avoided by a careful redrawing of some zoning lines. With that kind of moderate stance, he grabbed enough of Atlanta's white vote...
...riots" for a share of the disorders surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Then the tall, tanned lawyer, now 50, quit his $100,000-a-year job at Montgomery Ward vowing to overturn both the G.O.P. organization downstate and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine in Cook County. After he had hiked in denims 1,197 miles across Illinois, talking up his giant-killer theme, Walker edged out Daley's candidate in the primaries. But once he began campaigning against Ogilvie, an able Governor whose main political misfortune was authorship of the state's first...
...structure is like discussing oriental art without talking about Buddhism. From Huebler's structuring, the viewer learns about the way our culture conceptualizes different phenomena. Huebler structures and formalizes a very informal experience--almost simple-minded, daily tasks. "He uses these events to synthesize a new form," said Christopher Cook, guest curator for the exhibition...
...Cook County Sheriff Richard Elrod described De Mau Mau as a group of disgruntled Viet Nam veterans. Racial hatred, he said, "could have been one of the primary motives" for the slayings. "I can see no other apparent motivation." Chicago newspapers were quick to play up the case. Chicago Today, for instance, ran headlines declaring MURDER GANG 3,000 STRONG and DE MAU MAU TAKING OVER FOR THE PANTHERS. Sources close to the black-militant movement, however, called such charges preposterous, saying that De Mau Mau was a loosely organized group with less than 50 members...
LAST BOOKS READ: The Zap Comic version of War in the Pasture: La Vache Qui Rit meets Elsie. Deep Throated Guernsey. The I Hate to Cook Cookbook, and the New Hampshire Farmers Guide to Better Milk Production in Holsteins...