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...putting on a brave face, but I think it does matter whether or not the Russians come," said Brian Harlig, co-owner of Good Time Tickets, one of four major ticket outlets in Los Angeles. His Olympic sales slacked off noticeably after Moscow's announcement. Los Angeles City Councilman John Ferraro was more alarmed by the Soviet boycott: "It could hurt our Games tremendously...
...assume you believe in something, I some God, something?" the Pueblo councilman Domingo Atencio was saying in a voice as soft as the surrounding terrain: New Mexico...
Granted, at the beginning everything seemed so simple. Together, Rome's councilman for the city police, Mario De Bartolo, and Policewoman Enrica Pirri, who had abandoned a job at a fashion house to do public relations for the Corps, developed the idea for a competition. Why not have Pirri's former colleagues design a replacement for the women's version of men's outfits-navy blue skirt instead of trousers and regulation jacket with a couple of bust darts added to accommodate anatomy? Five renowned Italian designers would be invited to submit prototypes. The prize would...
Next day the drama was repeated at Moreno, 24 miles west of the Argentine capital: 14 bodies were uncovered. A city councilman in the working-class suburb of Florencio Varela announced that he believed at least 30 unidentified corpses were buried in his town's cemetery; in Casilda, 160 miles north of Buenos Aires, a lawyer investigating the 1976 disappearance of two Peronist-party activists spoke of ten bodies that might be found there...
...neighborhoods. Their populist appeals proved so evenly matched, in fact, that when voters in last week's nonpartisan primary picked them as the two mayoral finalists out of an eight-candidate field, Melvin King got just 98 more votes (out of a record 165,688 cast) than City Councilman Raymond Flynn. So will the general election, four weeks from now, be a blah choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee? Only if one overlooks the fact that Ray Flynn is white and Mel King is black...