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Losing Clout. Blacks exploded at the choice. "We will no longer be taken for granted," stormed Democratic Congressman Ralph Metcalfe. Polish Americans also objected, thus raising the specter of a black-Polish alliance against the ruling Irish-who stand to lose considerable clout now that their most powerful patron is gone. The fact is that even though Daley always mounted impressive parades and dyed the usually opaque Chicago River a bright green for St. Patrick's Day, the Irish account for only 5% of Chicago's 3.1 million people. Fully 39% of Chicagoans are black, 12% Hispanic...
...through her 3½ years of research for the book. Nine of them had anted up a total of $23,000 when she ran short of cash, and Shere was repaying the loans both in cash and in style. Said Virginio Del Toro, 48, a doorman and a patron to the tune of $15,000: "She was doing something somebody had to study. I only worried I would drop dead or something before she finished...
...early 1960s, Lysenko found a new patron in Nikita Khrushchev, who was desperately eager to overtake American agriculture. But Lysenko's star was already dimming. From the West came word of spectacular new advances in genetics. Lysenko's reputation was also undermined by Soviet geneticist Zhores Medvedev's samizdat (underground book) The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, which documented Lysenko's falsification of data and character assassination. Finally, when Khrushchev fell -in part because of his disastrous farm policies-so did Lysenko. The onetime czar of Soviet agriculture spent his declining years at a research...
...Phoenix company, H.A. Register, Inc., introduced the baubles last July, and has sold some 26,000 (retail price: $15). The blinking red lights are embedded in small, gold-colored trinkets, variously designed as traffic lights, question marks and Santa Claus, among other things. They can augment conversation. When a patron at the Phoenix Playboy Club asked a Bunny why the red light on her traffic-signal pendant, suspended above an intersection, was blinking, she sweetly responded: "Red means stop. Proceed with caution...
...fight with his own weapons, the profit motive and buying power. The book describes the methods that have been used by preservationists (documentation, recognition as a "historic landmark," zoning laws, real-estate clauses). But this time the catalog does not speak to the Dodgers fan, only to the philanthropic patron of the arts--because, as the authors admit, "the only way to save or rejuvenate old buildings is money." They recognize that "built into the current economic system are a number of disincentives to preservation...the tax structure tends to favor new and bigger buildings. Building codes are geared...