Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Paul Soglin, then only 27, upset a conservative Republican to become mayor of Madison, Wis., a year ago last April, the students who supported him hailed his victory as a sign that their day had finally come. But the erstwhile University of Wisconsin radical lost little time in setting his supporters straight. Climbing onto a stage during a ball celebrating his inaugural, the long-haired, mustachioed Soglin stripped off his dress shirt to reveal a T shirt bearing the legend MELLOW MAN. Said Soglin: "It's going to take those mellow men and mellow women to put this...
...greening of Soglin, a native of Chicago, from protest to power was gradual. A hard-core member of the antiwar movement, Soglin graduated from the university in 1966, stayed on in Madison for graduate work, law school and eventually politics. In 1968 his fellow students took advantage of their control of the city's Eighth District to elect him to the Madison city council...
...There is a religious nature to the ceremony you are about to witness," Master of Ceremonies Don Cornelius advised the 21,000 rowdy wedding guests assembled at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Acting as if it were news to them, the mostly white crowd -who had paid $6.50 to $8.50 a ticket to watch Rock Star Sly Stone, 30, marry Actress Kathy Silva, the mother of his nine-month-old child-whistled and hooted when the preacher launched into the Lord's Prayer. The nuptials were billed as a "golden affair." Halston, the designer of the costumes, explained...
...White House men walked across Lafayette Park to St. John's Church, the small, stately structure that has welcomed Presidents and their associates since the time of James Madison. Pat Buchanan, a Nixon speechwriter, his wife, and Richard Moore, presidential friend and assistant, were there. So was former Treasury Secretary George Shultz...
...spare the effort, and I know I have the ability to make people enjoy themselves." She has just completed her first album, Queen of the Night, masterminded by Atlantic's ace producer Jerry Wexler, and she climaxes her first smash U.S. solo tour with a June 13 Madison Square Garden concert...