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Adult Rate: $15 midweek, $30 weekends...
Hours: 8:30-4 weekends/holidays; 9:00-4 midweek...
...midweek Bush himself was chafing at the Truman approach. So he sought help from outside advisers, including two key figures from his 1988 campaign: political adman Roger Ailes and pollster Robert Teeter. Both men told Bush that his attempts to hang the budget mess on the Democrats looked defensive and that he would do better to change the subject. "Let's remind people that we've got some good things accomplished," a third adviser recommended. "Talk about the Clean Air Act. Talk about the gulf, which is more presidential. Above all, be yourself...
...fiscal collapse since Boston hit the skids in 1980. Plagued with rising needs, a shriveled treasury, dubious credit and ineffectual leaders, Philadelphia last week was sliding toward budgetary disaster. What may have been its last hope, a big new loan guarantee from the Swiss Bank Corp. fizzled at midweek, prompting two Wall Street credit-rating agencies to lower Philadelphia's bond rating and making the 308-year-old metropolis a prime candidate for insolvency unless it can raise $400 million by the end of September...
...midweek Dukakis asked Murphy what she intended to do if he went ahead with his tour. She refused to say. Miffed by his insistence, Murphy told reporters, "There's no goodwill here and certainly no mutual respect." In response, Dukakis accused Murphy of "trying to use this state's fiscal situation for personal political gain." Then he flew off to Europe. When Murphy finally announced her steps, they went little beyond what Dukakis had already done...