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When he died at age 83 in 1958, Curley had run Massachusetts as Governor for a term and was four times sent to the U.S. House of Representatives. But he was mayor of Boston ("Mayor of the Poor," he was called) for a full 16 years, four terms, the last of which was partly spent in jail on a mail-fraud conviction. Hizzoner continued to draw his salary while behind bars, gracefully donating it to other Boston prisoners...
...best immediate target, Carter's foreign policy. Ronald Reagan led the way: "I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into the escape helicopter." Former Texas Governor John Connally charged that the coming SALT ΙΙ treaty will do nothing "but legitimize and condone the Soviets' overtaking the United States in strategic arms between now and 1985." Onetime CIA Director George Bush complained that even the Chinese Communists are concerned about "the lack of U.S. resolution...
Film Producer Robert Radnitz, who lives in one of the threatened houses, first spotted the boulder. Partially dislodged by a landslide, it had come to rest 200 ft. above his house. After vainly asking local officials to get rid of it, he finally sent an angry telegram to Governor Jerry Brown. The state thereupon declared an emergency, shut down five miles of the highway, and hired a Long Beach construction company for $97,000 to haul the boulder away...
...convention on two distinct grounds. Sensibly, they say that the Constitution is no place to mandate a specific economic policy. If the budget-balancers succeed, they would join the distinguished company of slaveholders and Prohibitionists, the only other groups ever to write their interests into the Constitution. California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr., the biggest national figure to support a convention publicly, wants to place a balanced budget requirement into the Constitution as a philosophical symbol of national discipline; but congressional budget-makers each year would have to work with that symbol, which could never be thorough enough to cover...
When the Massachusetts house of representatives last week took up Governor Edward King's request to raise the legal drinking age to 21, scores of college students crowded into the gallery. "Atta way, baby!" they shouted when the house watered down the measure. But King lobbied overnight, and the house and senate then overwhelmingly voted to set the age at 19. The two houses are expected to agree soon to move the limit...