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...Georgia, the governor and the state chairman pick convention delegates themselves. In Illinois, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley decides who shall be "elected" and how they shall vote. In other states, precinct caucuses are held without public notice. In Copiah, Miss., a fictitious name was placed on the delegate list...
Waterford is a spruce seaside town in southern Ireland known for its cut glass and warm hospitality. But even Gaelic graciousness has its bounds. In Chicago for St. Patrick's Day, Waterford's Mayor William Jones invited his counterpart, Richard Daley, to Ireland this summer and planned to offer him the keys to the city. All very nice, except that the Irish are not entirely sure that they want King Richard on the ould sod. Waterford's Labor Party termed the invitation "a shameful action," declaring: "We are not satisfied that Mayor Daley has cleared himself...
...recently "fuck" has been thrown around publicly in all kinds of ways, and it has suffered accordingly. As Eldridge Cleaver and many others, including lots of young girls, openly exhorted us to fuck such undesirables as Reagan, Daley, and the Chicago police, the word began to lose both its masculinity and whatever juicy meaning it had left. It became, in effect, an extremely derogatory form of "damn." And now even that meaning is being diminished. People use "fuck" so freely, and so many respectable magazines have decided to print it wherever necessary, that at least one writer in Esquire...
...From left: Cleaveland's Carl Stokes, Chicago's Richard Daley, New York's John Lindsay, Nixon, Urban Affairs' Pat Moynihan, Syracuse's William Walsh, Boston's Kevin White, and Office of Economice Opportunity Director Donald Rumsfeld...
...smoking, emphasize the positive effects of quitting. Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward are among the recent graduates of Sunset Boulevard's "Smoking Control Center," one of several $125 per course habit-breaking outfits that have opened lately in Los Angeles. Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley recently mailed circulars urging 36,000 city employees to attend similar clinics. Despite these efforts, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare estimates that only 45% of the people who want to quit really do so for as long as three weeks-and less than half of those are able...