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...stars twinkled once again over the dance floor, and haute coutured fundaments warmed the zebra-striped banquettes as Manhattan's El Morocco reopened its doors to the oglers and the ogled. There were plenty of oldtime international set pieces-Paulette Goddard flashing rubies and diamonds, Hope Hampton flashing silver sequins, Aristotle Onassis flashing Jacqueline. But there were signs, too, that the times they are achanging. A disk jockey has replaced the orchestra. Dinner is a prix fixe $8.50-less than the average tip in the Elmo...
...proof was needed that the Daley machine is still running as smoothly and insensitively as ever, there was the renomination of State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, an old Daley crony who is under state indictment for his role in the police raid that left Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark dead in a blood-spattered Chicago apartment two years ago. Senator Adlai Stevenson 111 was so outraged at Han-rahan's political reprieve that he took an unusual step for graduates of the Sherman House ritual: he publicly condemned the nomination...
...monthly launched after the stormy Democratic Convention in 1968 to fight "news management, news manipulation and assaults on the integrity of the working press." Its favorite subject is the generally uncritical attitude of Chicago's papers toward the political machine of Mayor Richard Daley. When Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed in a Chicago shootout two years ago, the dailies at first did not question the official version: that the Panthers fired first and brought the fatal fusillade on themselves. But the Review devoted a spe- cial 16-page issue to the incident and raised many...
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Died. Lieut. General Lewis B. Puller, 73, the legendary Leatherneck who became the most decorated Marine in the corps' history; of pneumonia; in Hampton, Va. Weaned on the rousing reminiscences of Confederate veterans, Virginia-born "Chesty"-so called because he always walked like a pouter pigeon-was often described as a born combat leader. According to legend, he went into battle with a copy of Caesar's Gallic Wars tucked in his duffel bag. Volunteering as a private in World War I, Puller was commissioned at 20; he first saw action battling bandits in Haiti and Nicaragua...