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...ones. "He's like a post office clerk sorting mail," says one associate. "He keeps men in slots. In a general human sense of trusting somebody, the only person really close to him is his wife." Daley's entire attention is devoted to Chicago and to every facet of the city's life. "Ever been to a ball game with Daley?" asks Real Estate Man James Downs. "If the White Sox are losing 10 to 1, he thinks in the next inning they're going to tie it up. He never lets...
...Another facet of the PBH work will be getting in touch with families living in the slums. The volunteers hope to get an idea of substandard living conditions while alerting residents to the urban renewal going on in the area...
...than anyone can imagine," and densely inhabited by ''all the brassy blondes whom you seem to remember from Miami, all the sharp-featured characters in their wrap-around polo coats." Turning away disdainfully, he trained his eye on the city's newspaper strike, found an unexplored facet: the special travail of Manhattan's paper-trained dogs. "It strikes you as so strange." Frazier wrote, "to hear one woman complain, 'I just don't know what I'm going to do about my dog-my poor little Curt. He was so used...
...ambitious, and socially indifferent and unconcerned egotist." Because these self-centered bright students have "little to offer, either now or later,'' colleges should be ready to welcome other good qualities. "Who says that brains and motivated performance represent the dimensions of excellence? Is not social concern a facet of excellence? Is it not exciting to find a candidate who believes that 'no man liveth unto himself?' What about leadership? Integrity? The ability to communicate both ideas and friendship? May we discount spiritual eagerness? And why should we pass over cooperation with others in good causes, even...
Dilworth's emotionalism is even the subject of jokes within his own party. Quips former Democratic Governor George Leader: "Nobody controls Dick Dilworth. Sometimes he can't even control himself." Dilworth, however, makes no apology for this facet of his personality. Says he: "I am emotional, and I'm damn proud of it. If it hadn't been for emotional men, Philadelphia wouldn't have moved in the last eleven years...