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...convention. Yet when the votes were counted, both Kennedy and Byrne had been crushed. Carter won by the huge advantage of 758,455 to 349,395 and collected 138 delegates to Kennedy's woeful 14, all from Chicago. Byrne's malfunctioning machine, which the late Mayor Richard Daley had built into the last of the great urban juggernauts, even lost key local offices. Kennedy was beaten not only in black, Jewish and labor districts but also in Irish Catholic areas. Both Byrne and Kennedy proved unpopular, prompting Carter Campaign Manager Robert Strauss to gibe: "The mayor and Senator...
...high political drama. They found it along Chicago's State Street on St. Patrick's Day. Mayor Jane Byrne, in a Day-Glo green vinyl cap and swathed in the luxurious fur of numerous martens, towed an uncomfortable Senator Kennedy through what used to be Mayor Richard Daley's scruffy but functional precincts. The lung power of the combined brass bands of the great city was unable to drown out the boos. Daley surely turned a bit in Holy Sepulcher cemetery...
...crisis began when the Chicago Fire Fighters Union became locked in an angry, name-calling feud with strong-willed Mayor Jane Byrne. Richard Daley, her predecessor, had kept the firemen content by raising their pay without a contract until the average $22,300-a-year salary was among the highest paid to the nation's firemen. But Byrne resisted demands for a contract that would assign a six-man team to each fire truck (up from the current four or five men), cover supervisors, and include the right to strike...
...began to soften its demands. Meanwhile, Chicago was making do. The number of blazes was running slightly below average, and only three people had died from fires in the 17 days, no more than the normal rate. Said one striking fireman of the city's fortunate residents: "Mayor Daley must be looking over them...
...Chinese soldiers down the Natu La pass in the Himalayas. He hounded the home office for an assignment in Viet Nam and spent nearly a year there. A different kind of combat duty awaited him back in the U.S. He was punched in the stomach by one of Mayor Daley's security guards on the floor of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago...