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Most of them would not have placed in a baby contest, but there they were, looking surprisingly like their grown-up selves. From Baby Adolf Hitler to Altar Boy Richard Daley, the passel of snapshots and more formal portraits had been assembled somewhat irreverently in a paperback album, As They Were, by Sylvia Topp and Tuli Kupferberg. Little Walter Cronkite sported short pants and big ears; Sammy Davis Jr. at three looked like a refugee from Our Gang; Marlene Dietrich was demurely Victorian, with a tiny heart-shaped locket and crossed ankles. As a baby, Baby Dr. Benjamin Spock wore...
...thing, the plan was prepared (by the architectural and planning firm of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill) for the Central Area Committee, a group of businessmen that a local newspaper calls "Chicago's power elite."* For another, it has the blessing of Chicago's strongman, Mayor Richard Daley, who wants to leave office with the city firmly pointed toward a prosperous future...
...Committee, is optimistic: "We are shifting to an adult urban society. The birth rate is down, and people are not going to find it very attractive any more to make the commute from the suburbs every day. We've also passed the threshold in the integration battle." Mayor Daley clearly agrees. At the official release of the plan, he proudly called it "one of the great acts in the renaissance of the city...
...director of the New China News Agency, the delegation has shown an omnivorous appetite for economics, sociology and Americana in general. Mayor John Lindsay treated them to a tour of Harlem streets, where they took time out to chat with sidewalk winos. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley bestowed honorary citizenship on the visitors. In Washington they donned hard hats to interview construction workers. Any mention of statistics brought out pens and notebooks. Informed during an inspection of an Illinois ranch that only 4% of the 220 million U.S. citizens work on farms, Chao Chi-hua, a deputy director in Peking...
...when he was narrowly edged out of the presidency by John F. Kennedy. To some people, tire issue was still in doubt days after the election. Kennedy held a lead of only 118,574 votes, and Republicans angrily charged massive vote stealing by Democratic officials in Mayor Richard Daley's Chicago and Lyndon Johnson's Texas-two places that could have changed the whole election. Nixon was urged by some associates to challenge the results, but he finally decided-in the interest of national unity, he said...