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After a bitter campaign, Harold Washington tries to heal a divided city
...AUNT ONCE TOLD me that after seeing Gone With the Wind for the 20th time, her heart still went aflutter when Rhett walked out the door at the end. And a friend of mine confessed that after seven viewings she still was grossed out by Harold's bizarre suicide attempts in Harold and Maude. Now I too belong to their fan club of repetition. After seeing HMS Pinafore--a Gilbert and Sullivan musical comedy--for the sixth time. I still thoroughly basked in its bubbly brilliance...
Kearney predicts that Black Rep. Harold Washington's victory in last week's well-publicized Chicago mayoral election will encourage an increased minority voter turnout that will benefit state Rep. Melvin H. King, the only Black in the Boston field. But he doubts that the Hub will replay the Chicago scenario. "Boston is a different city than Chicago in terms of demographics," he explains, adding, "I don't have any reason to believe that this campaign will take on those racial dimensions...
...continuing, and we may not even be able to measure its full impact," says Will Bowman, research director of the Oklahoma employment security commission. In Elk City, which sits over the energy-laden Anadarko Basin, joblessness jumped from 2.4% in February 1982 to 11.8% this February. Laments Mayor Harold Wehrenberg: "Everything kind of cut off all at once. No one really expected anything like this...
...Chrysler is keeping its big New Yorker and producing large cars 16% faster than it did four months ago. Chairman Lee Iacocca, however, wants the Government to tack an additional 20? onto the federal gas tax to encourage conservation, even though there is more profit in bigger cars. Says Harold Sperlich, president of Chrysler's North American car business: "We are giving people the wrong signal, and hastening the day when the next oil crisis will arrive...