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...anyone told Cornelia Jones that she would one day own a house, let alone on Junius Street in Brooklyn's notorious Brownsville district, she would have laughed. The average price for decent housing in adjoining neighborhoods is $80,000, far above what her husband Melvin, a package loader with United Parcel Service, could swing on a salary of just under $30,000. Moreover, Junius Street was a wasteland of vandalized buildings and rubble-strewn vacant lots, not even a place "that I wanted my car to break down in," says Jones, 48. Yet in August 1984 the Joneses and their...
Senators needed only to look across the Capitol for an example of the chaos that can erupt when seniority is ignored. In a rare coup, Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin two years ago seized the chair of the House Armed Services Committee from Illinois' Melvin Price, then 80. Without the seniority shield, Aspin was himself toppled this year by his party's caucus. He had alienated liberals by supporting the MX missile and the contras, and offended many by his general tactlessness (he likened former Speaker Tip O'Neill to a "beached whale"). After two weeks of frenzied campaigning...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow