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...DALEY C. HAGGAR...
...when Americans are not lamenting "How did we come to this?" In 1964 Lyndon Johnson was a drawling Texas mess we inherited after ex-playboy J.F.K. was martyred into his golden nimbus. Johnson's opponent Barry Goldwater was a thermonuclear psychotic. So thought everyone to the left of Mayor Daley...
Some prominent Democrats, including a key associate of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, are also privately urging Powell to consider running against Clinton in their primaries. Powell, they reason, might give the party a better chance of retaining the White House. The White House reacted by scoffing at some Powell comments. Press secretary Mike McCurry derided Powell's left-leaning Republicanism by asserting, "I don't recall Senator Arlen Specter doing that well...
...writing about the pathetic observations in Daley C. Hagar's article about Martin Amis ("Amis' Information, on Our Shores," May 12, 1995). Country to Hagar's assertion, "I couldn't find a single person at Harvard who had even heard of him," I managed to round up two of my friends here at Harvard who had not only "heard of him" but had indeed read most of his novels and essays...
Chicago's mayor Richard Daley may have won a landslide victory in the city's Democratic primary, but what attracted national attention to Tuesday's balloting was the success of Wallace ("Gator") Bradley and Hal Baskin. The two candidates, who won runoff spots for city council elections to be held in April, were backed by the Gangster Disciples, the city's largest street gang...