Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prove the wisdom of Philadelphia's refusal to give Rizzo a chance at another term, a federal grand jury last week heard charges that his administration was responsible for the failure of perhaps hundreds of voting machines, most of them concentrated in anti-Rizzo wards. One of the city's election commissioners, Margaret Tartagalione, a Rizzo supporter, was arrested for having ordered voting machines in other anti-Rizzo districts moved away from regular polling places...
...Manhattan's silk stocking district, William Green, an heir to the Grand Union supermarket chain, retained his seat in Congress by defeating Democrat Carter Burden, a scion of the Vanderbilt family. The pair spent $850,000 on the race, about half from their own fortunes, seeking a job that pays $57,500 a year...
...Park's gifts, lost. So did Philadelphia Congressman Joshua Eilberg, indicted for taking legal fees to help secure federal funds for a local hospital. Former Senator and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney of Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude go-go club, was turned out of office...
...sympathy is limited. For surely, there were points along the road to Grand Apartheid where compromise could have been reached, and confrontation would not have been so inevitable. Now, it seems too late, and the Afrikaaner Nationalists still seem unwilling to give up a single piece of privilege. If they were flexible, they wouldn't have chosen the most hawkish candidate to replace Vorster. Time is running out, and everyone in South Africa knows it; but the Nats seems to have closed ranks and turned right, marching toward full scale...
...Harvard-Yale football game by falling on a loose ball that had eluded the Yale football game by falling on a loose ball that had eluded the Yale goaltenders in the 1875 game, there were few people there who would have predicted the rivalry would develop into such a grand spectacle...