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...running for a second term against the venerable Democratic machine of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley. Hewlett, folksy and wisecracking, is running with machine support. The outcome will go a long way toward determining the political leadership of Illinois when Daley, 73, finally bows out. Indeed, Daley hand-picked Howlett to fight Walker, whom the mayor never liked and now despises because of his attacks on the machine. Boasts Howlett: "Dick Daley has been a friend of mine for 30 years." Retorts Walker: "We're going to whip Boss Daley like he needs to be whipped...
Ethnic Vote. In style, the two candidates could hardly be more different. A portly, genial, old-fashioned pol from Chicago, Howlett last year backslapped his way through 260 functions around the state; he is running at an even brisker pace this year. Though Walker is moving even faster, he is deceptively low-keyed at factory gates and bowling alleys: "Need your vote. Don't forget." He is working hard to slice off some of Chicago's ethnic vote, which is usually safe for Daley's candidate. Walker charges that no member of the Polish community has been...
Whether they blame the Congress or the President, corporate executives are increasingly vexed by uncertainties and inaction in Washington. "It's difficult to calculate the inflationary pressures on labor rates and costs of ingredients," complains President William Howlett of Consolidated Foods. "I lay 99% of the responsibility at the doorstep of the Administration," says President Robinson F. Barker of PPG Industries. "Sure, you can keep surtaxing and surtaxing until we're surtaxed to death," says President A. Clark Daugherty of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., "but it won't help unless federal spending is cut." The difficulty about wielding...
More worrisome is the continued illness of Walt Howlett, defender in the two-mile who has been bothered by a sore calf all year...
...Crimson's two biggest question marks, two-miler Walt Howlett and high-jumper Chris Pardee, are now men to beat in the Heps, on the strength of their convincing wins in Saturday's rout...