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Fighting City Hall. On election night, Scott conceded 31 hours after the polls closed, and Percy wound up with 615,686 votes to Scott's 383,462. In November, Percy will face Illinois' ineffectual Governor Otto Kerner, a cog in Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machinery. Said Percy: "We'll be running against the White House, the Governor's mansion and city hall."† But he felt a good deal of his own strength would come from his freedom to run for Governor as his own man. Said confident Chuck Percy after last week...
Chicago is not the sort of place to take an insult lying down, particularly when the slur has crossed the Atlantic. "Injustice has been done to a great city," roared Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley, 61, when he heard that the city of Reading, England, has gone and changed the name of its Chicago Road to Sandcroft Road. Explained Reading's Mayor J.C.H. Butcher: "Residents of the street have nothing against the city of Chicago. They say they just got tired of being asked by visitors where they could check their guns...
...ready to rumble! Ready to rumble!" He shrieked at Liston: "You nothin'. You scared. You a chump, a sucker. I'm gonna eat you up." Newsmen shook their heads sadly. "Schizophrenia," suggested Milton Gross of the New York Post. "Hysteria," said New York Timesman Arthur Daley. The boxing commission doctor reported Clay's pulse rate at 120-v. his normal 54. "This is a man who is scared to death," diagnosed the doctor. "He acts like a man off the beaten path." The performance cost Cassius a $2,500 fine, and out in Las Vegas, bookmakers raised...
...often been rumored that Daley would run for the Senate or take a cabinet level post as a Director of Urban Affairs. But as he says, "I could have gone to Washington a long time ago if I wanted to: I like the local level, it's closest to the people, and the opportunities for effective leadership are greater. Besides, Chicago is moving ahead...
...early supporter of John F. Kennedy, Daley still uses his language. But the image of Lyndon Johnson is "impressive out our way." Non-commital about whom he favors for the vice-Presidency, Daley does not think it will make much difference. Johnson will win because he is a "good candidate and a good President." To Mayor Daley it is important that he be both...