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Small wonder. Those billions that conventioneers sprinkle behind them are high-velocity dollars. The money remains the same, as Gertrude Stein put it, but the pockets change. Faster than you can say otorhinolaryngologist. According to some estimates, a dollar spent at a convention is respent locally five times over the...
There are at least 200 such professional convention consultants in private practice, about an equal number on the staffs of major associations. They will write speeches, build exhibits, put on skits with bona fide Equity actors, order food and drink, bribe hotel employees to be especially solicitous, arrange side-trips...
The Arabs also have a grudging respect for the man who has planned or supervised most of the improvements in the Old City for the past eleven years: Vienna-born Mayor Teddy Kollek, 67. A pudgy, sometimes abrasive human dynamo, Kollek has a profound sense of the city's history...
Cleveland's school system is in at least as much trouble as the municipal government. Having managed for two years to delay obeying a federal court's orders to desegregate city schools, which are roughly 60% black, the school board last week voted to sell some 28 vacant...
Cleveland must also find a way to pay a $13 million debt owed to the Cleveland Electricity Illuminating Co. The privately owned utility sells power to the public Municipal Light Co., which resells it to 46,000 customers. Last spring C.E.I, got federal marshals to begin tagging pieces of city...