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...conspicuous absentee: Host Richard J. Daley. King Richard, now 74, was off fishing in Florida, resting up from his humiliation on Election Day when, despite his Democratic machine's efforts, Gerald Ford carried Illinois and Republicans beat the mayor's candidates for Governor, attorney general and Cook County state's attorney...
Still, even Daley's foes figure that there are several hurrahs left for the mayor. Republican Governor-elect James Thompson, who as U.S. Attorney convicted scores of Cook County Democrats and Republicans for political corruption, likened Daley to "a wounded old lion," bloodied but still dangerous. Indeed, Thompson has promised to "work closely" with Hizzoner...
...fills out this line, and at this point, you can speak of all newcomers. Third-liners Randy Millen, John Cochrane and Jon Garrity have yet to get their skates sharpened, as the former two are up from the freshmen team, the latter from Milton Academy, while fourth-liners Bryan Cook and Charley Peterson were, and pretty much still are, reserve forwards...
...doubt, that it is Falstaffian. The author's conceit is that Falstaff is now in his 80s. Busily dictating his memoirs, he passes on to a series of horrified clerks his digestive uproars, his sexual fantasies about his pubescent niece and his rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion"). Falstaff acknowledges that there was a report of his death at the Boar's Head Tavern in Eastcheap some years earlier but explains it as a harmless charade, staged with Mistress Quickly's help, to cool the passions of his creditors...
...superwoman to be a supermarket manager, but it may help."), to "Wages for Housewives" which, in a comment one would only expect to find in Readers' Digest or Life Magazine, exclaims incredulously, "Some folks are beginning to suggest that women who stay at home and clean and cook and shop...should be considered 'working people...