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...thirtyish, an assistant in his firm, stitched the knot in a secretive civil ceremony in Rome. Why Rome? "I've never been before," smiled the radiant bride. The couple slipped quietly into the red room of the historic Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill and exchanged vows in front of the councilman for the city police. (The mayor sent his regrets.) Afterward, the pair posed briefly for photographers, she threw her bouquet of white roses to a friend, and they were off, as the dapper groom explained, to stay "with friends in Rome for a few days and then we have...
...drug-testing call is also being heard in city government. Setting an example for public employees, San Antonio's Democratic mayor, Henry Cisneros, underwent urinalysis, prompting one suggestion for a new sign for hizzoner's desk: THE JAR STOPS HERE. While Cisneros tested negative, City Councilman Ed Harrington flunked his urinalysis: the test revealed caffeine overload, and Harrington subsequently confessed to a ten-cup-a-day coffee habit...
...politically connected shoo-in. This time, though, both candidates were black and the minority vote was white. The well-connected loser in the Democratic primary runoff in Atlanta's Fifth Congressional District was State Senator Julian Bond, a founder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The winner: former City Councilman John Lewis, onetime S.N.C.C. chairman, who outhustled his former ally to beat him 52% to 48% after finishing a distant second in last month's primary...
...London Standard photo of Schoolboy Barry Tavner, 13, displaying his beaten bottom after he received five strokes from his headmaster for getting low grades. Ironically, Tavner, who attends a private school, will not be affected by the ban. Others have long advocated allowing teachers to strike. Said a Welsh councilman: "Sending a teacher into a classroom with no cane is like sending a boxer into the ring with one hand tied behind his back...
Lewis, balding and intense, is a thick-tongued speaker. But he is widely revered as a living saint, a man of courage and commitment who was always on the front lines. During the movement, he was arrested 40 times and beaten often. As an Atlanta councilman, he has set himself up as an unyielding moralist. "In some quarters they think I'm too honest, too open to be effective," he admits with pride...