Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ballot. City Councilman Michael L. Climaco, another candidate for Congress, is pumping hands and introducing himself as "the picture on that card you're holding." Although the room has the ambience more of an after-church coffee klatch than a political meeting, those present take their politics seriously. The gap between St. Josephat's basement and the House Chamber in Washington seems unbridgeable--but even House majority leader Thomas P. O'Neil (D-Mass.) got started in church basements...
Certainly, recognition presents no obstacle for a Celebrezze--but will two scions of that family confuse voters in a race which one Cleveland columnist claimed has "overtones of a family rivalry?" A recent poll done for Tony's campaign showed a big gap between his support and his cousin's--respectively, they garnered 25.6 per cent and 7.5 per cent. City Councilman Basil Russo, Tony's major opposition, remarked that "having two Celebrezzes in would be the best thing that could happen...
...first ten years of autonomy have been idyllic for Rhodesia's white minority. A pleasant climate and prospering economy have combined to make life very comfortable for white Rhodesians; while personal incomes for both blacks and whites have increased since independence, the gap between the two has grown wider. The average black wage earner's pay is less than one-twelfth of the average income of white Rhodesians, and the earnings of 90 per cent of Salisbury's employed blacks are below the $133-per-month poverty level. The remaining mass of unemployed blacks live under even more marginal conditions...
Social Security Administration officials do not consider the defections ominous-yet. As employment by local governments grows, they point out, more municipal employees are coming into the system than are leaving it. But the gap is narrowing. In 1974, 7,845 local-government employees left, while 25,000 came in; last year there were 18,000 exits and 25,000 entrances. With the addition of New York, some 170,000 more workers may leave in the next two years...
With that pass Bolduc bridged quite a generation gap, for in 1959 Backstrom won the Calder Cup as the Rookie of the Year in the NHL, while Bolduc was probably lacing up his double runners as a four-year-old star...