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When the near religious fervor of black voters combined with enough support from white "lakefront liberals" to propel him to a second term last spring, Harold Washington predicted that he would serve 20 years as Chicago's first black mayor. But his bid to establish a political dynasty that would rival Richard J. Daley's legendary machine came to a sudden end last week. Seated at the desk in his city hall office, the portly, 65-year-old Washington collapsed % from a massive coronary while going over the day's appointments with his press secretary. Despite the speedy intervention...
...minorities. The latest target is Latvia, the Soviet Baltic republic forcibly incorporated into the U.S.S.R. in 1940. As Latvian activists prepared for last week's commemoration of their lost independence, Soviet authorities sought to thwart them by trotting out an enigmatic figure from the spy wars of the 1950s: Harold ("Kim") Philby, 75, an Englishman who was the most successful Soviet mole in the British Secret Service...
...visit he branded the school system America's worst, with a dropout rate of 45% and achievement scores for many schools in the bottom 1% nationwide. Chicago officials were not pleased. After all, surveys have put New York City's and Detroit's dropout rates higher. Chicago Mayor Harold Washington angrily countercharged that Ronald Reagan "has literally dismantled public education in this country." Last week, after saying "the mayor doesn't know what the hell he is talking about," Bennett went to tiny (pop. 350) Missouri City to pronounce its one-school, 85-pupil system a "miracle" in which "children...
Michigan President Harold Shapiro will step down on Jan. 1 to take over the presidency of Princeton University from William G. Bowen...
...Harold Brodkey '51, a colleague of Arlen's at The New Yorker, said that Harvard will win because "everybody knows that Harvard always wins...