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...mayor died on December 20 and the city had a problem. Wilson Frost, the black president pro tem of the City Council who had presided in Daley's absence, told reporters, "I am acting mayor." But the city's corporation counsel, William Quinlin, said there was no acting mayor until the City Council met the following week to select...
...first to move was Wilson Frost, a black alderman who declared himself acting mayor on the grounds that he was president pro tem of the 50-member city council (one alderman from every Chicago ward). Frost soon found himself out in the cold. A group of council members chose Michael Bilandic, 53, to be acting mayor. A bland, methodical al derman, Bilandic was chairman of the finance committee and the late mayor's right-hand man. Commenting on his origins in a rare display of levity, Biland ic noted that the two-man Croatian delegation in the city council...
...with the understanding that he would not run for a full term in the special election that the city council must schedule within the next six months. A new post was created, vice mayor, which the twelve Polish aldermen were permitted to fill. To appease the 13 black aldermen, Frost was given the chairmanship of the finance committee...
...deal stuck. As a portrait of Daley beamed benevolently down on them, the aldermen decorously voted for the agreed-upon candidates. Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, who had yielded his finance committee post to Frost, hailed the selection process. "We all came to gether and put aside personal ambitions and ego," said Vrdolyak, who is the other Croatian on the city council. "I myself lost three jobs last week...
Switching back and forth from The Smugglers of Lost Souls' Rock to the mother tale of October Light is a little like reading Terry Southern with a Robert Frost poem as chaser, or vice versa. But Sally (and the reader) gradually sees the connection. The characters of The Smugglers are also locked in demonic contest with their enemies-and themselves. They too know what Gardner seems to regard as the incurable and often suicidal addiction of modern man: a passion for absolute freedom that says, "I will be God or I will...