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...perhaps the most heartening black mayoral success was that of Democrat Harvey Gantt in Charlotte, N.C., where just one in four voters is black. He took 40% of the white vote; the election was almost entirely free of racial animosity. Said Gantt: "We ought to be able to go out and recruit industry on the basis that we have such racial harmony." Indeed, only in Los Angeles has a big-city black mayor won a larger share of the white vote...
...mayors also said that the K-School conference provided an opportunity to most their colleagues in other cities. "I want to be able to call up the mayor of Denver and ask him how he settled a garbage strike," said Harvey Gantt of Charlotte...
Harvard players have had their share of misery also, as Harvey Popell '54 can attest. "It's the kind of thing I can look back on now and chuckle, but it wasn't a laughing matter then," he says, of an infamous 1952 incident. "We were getting beaten very badly, and the Yale coach, unbeknownst to us, put the manager of the team in on an extra point. He caught the pass and scored an extra point," says Popell. "Nobody, not even the announcer knew who this guy was in the number 99 jersey. It was written up in Time...
Awakened by the explosions, the American students at the True Blue campus of St. George's University School of Medicine did not know who was shooting at whom. "There was antiaircraft fire coming from the Cubans around the airport," said Harold Harvey, 22, of Beckley, W. Va. "Then I saw the paratroopers jumping. It was really thrilling to see, kind of like an old John Wayne movie, but I knew people were going to get killed." Student Stephen Renae of Point Pleasant, N.J., saw "planes diving and strafing at ground targets we couldn't see. The worst thing...
...sense that this season might be his last. "We have a chance to win them all," he told the players a few weeks ago. "Why don't we?" They were stunned. What ever happened to "Win them one at a time"? A number of the veterans- Defensive Linemen Harvey Martin and John Dutton, Wide Receiver Drew Pearson, Linebacker Bob Breunig-are long enough in the tooth to wonder how many more chances they will have. Until Washington and San Francisco at the end of the schedule, Dallas' path is exceedingly smooth...