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George Sikowski (Cole Stevens), mayor of the town, faces an uphill re-election fight, and Phil Romano (Charles Laquidera, a WBCN dj) who inherited his father's strip-mining business isn't sure that he shouldn't back George's Jewish challenger, Sharman. James Daley, (Jon Terry) unloved and unsuccessful, is embittered with his job as a junior high school principal, and regards himself as a man of "unfulfilled potential." James feels he has been held back by his obligations to his recently-deceased father and Tom (William Leach) his alcoholic brother. And through it all is the coach (Alan...
...party that had long tended more toward convulsions than conventions this time squelched each lingering itch for fratricide. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, booed and hooted in 1968 for unleashing his clubbing cops against antiwar protesters and banned altogether in 1972 by the overzealous George McGovern reformists, was back at his pink-faced best, basking in interviews, murdering the language in a forgettable speech explaining the urban affairs plank of the party's bland rock-no-boats platform...
Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley had been pushing Stevenson, but accepted Carter's choice warmly. "I'm very happy with the ticket," said Daley. "In Illinois, it'll help." Basil Paterson, chairman of the Caucus of Black Democrats, described the caucus as "overwhelmingly enthusiastic...
There were still a few in the delegate ranks who reminded the nation of the past. Chicago's mayor, Richard Daley, presided over the Illinois contingent. But he and everybody else knew the political actuarial tables were about to expire on him. The new delegates who came down the aisles stopped, looked and snapped a picture or two of the woolly mammoth of Democratic legend...
...free to ram in all those commercials or just to chat on-camera. Television, once the pushy guest in the hall, has taken over. Such a development used to disturb political scientists, who remember how influential was television's 1968 crosscutting between demonstrators outside and an apoplectic Mayor Daley inside. This time television was guilty of only minor attempts at hype (TV reporter to a Carter man: "How can you now ignore Barbara Jordan for Vice President?"). There is something about encasing reporters in head rigs connected to the anchor booth, then sending them pushing through crowded aisles...