Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...political education proved to be valuable. In early 1973, when Senator George McGovern's campaign organization was still a political force in Madison, Soglin leaped into the mayoral race as an independent. The campaign, which took an ugly turn when Dyke appealed to Madison's "decent people" to keep him in office, was bitter. Soglin's more statesmanlike approach gave him 52% of the vote...
Soglin, as alderman, helped push through a bill enabling the city to take over Madison's failing private bus line and has since got $2.135 million in federal grants for buying new equipment. As a result of improvements made during his administration, ridership on the bus line is up 17% in the last year. The mayor has also tightened housing inspection procedures, started a fund to provide loans for home rehabilitation, and opened city government to more people. Of the 370 people Soglin has named to city committees, 47.7% have been women and, in a city where only...
Still, Soglin has had his problems. Many policemen are upset over his support of David Couper, 31, an iconoclastic police chief whose enforcement of a merit system for promotion has made him enemies on the force. Members of Madison's business establishment feel that many of Soglin's committee appointees lack the expertise needed to deal with municipal problems. "These are a lot of people who have been in the stands watching but who haven't had a chance to play the game," says Robert Brennan, a former University of Wisconsin track coach and head...
There is something worse than a golf or football widow-and that is a boxer's wife. Honing the will to win, some trainers like to keep their stars sexually frustrated. Last week as a presumably fighting-mad Heavyweight Jerry Quarry, 29, weighed in at Madison Square Garden for his bout with former World Champion Joe Frazier, his wife Charlie weighed in with comments on their married life for NBC's Today show. "We have a two-week curfew," explained the blonde former Miss Indiana. "Gil Clancy, Jerry's manager, is in the room right next...
Early sales figures suggested that the String could become one of the most important Brazilian inventions since coffee. Bloomingdale's in Manhattan sold out its first order of 150 suits in two weeks. Ralph Paterno, owner of a Madison Avenue boutique who has his Strings made at his factory in Italy, sold 160 in two days. "I've had calls from all over for them from men-boy friends and husbands," he says. His suits cost from $35 to $40-v. $6 in Rio-and come in a variety of materials, including cotton and jersey, which Paterno favors...