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...city won't blow up, the sun won't rise in the west.... I've been through these things before. It's all part of the game." But this time it was all over for the Cambridge kingpin. He stayed on to run for re-election as a councilman again in 1967, but failed to finish in the top three for the first time in a number of years and retired to his practice rather than run again...
More Libyans. Tired of both their poverty and their tranquillity, some Pantellerians are happy at the prospect of invasion and are set to welcome just about anyone. "For national reasons I suppose I should be protesting against Gaddafi," says Girolamo Sechi, a city councilman. "Instead, I say, 'Welcome,' and the more Libyans the better. They're going to bring 2,000 tourist beds, whereas now we have only 1,000." Adds Giuseppe Cornado, the island's postmaster, with a long sigh: "Gaddafi or NATO. I don't care who it is, just so they bring...
...York delegation took the prize for the greatest number of nationally known politicians. Crammed into the aisles were Reps. Bella Abzug, Elizabeth Holtzman, Shirley Chisholm, and Herman Badillo; ex-governor Averell Harriman; Mayor Abraham Beame; former Rep. Mario Biaggi; City Councilman Meade Esposito; writer Michael Harrington; and AFL-CIO leader Albert Shanker...
Prophetic Dreams. The contestants had no monopoly on strangeness. Throughout the frantic days when it appeared that the match would be canceled, Gudmundur Thorarinsson comported himself with the kind of cool dignity befitting the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation and a Reykjavik city councilman. Except, that is, for that one moment when, by the light of the midnight sun, he assured some foreign friends that the match would take place because, based on consultations with a spiritualist, "prophetic dreams" and "certain powers" unique to his people, "I know a miracle will happen...
...Captain's Cusack's Internal Affairs track record of five hearings held and no officer dismissed or disciplined out of seventy-odd official complaints of police misconduct--nothing! No response whatever except for a suggestion from Councilman Wylie and City Manager Sullivan that the International Association of Police Chiefs make a second visit to Cambridge in the course of their current investigation of the Cambridge Police Force...