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...CLEVELAND: Incumbent Mayor Ralph Perk, a white Republican running against Arnold Pinkney, a black Democrat, won a third term with the help of a large turnout from the city's predominantly white West Side...
...concession speech, school superintendent Pinkney said this loss--his second in a race against Perk--will not stop his efforts to show that "black folks will someday be somebody...
During the campaign, Pinkney charged Perk with not doing enough to stop crime in the city, while the mayor responded that he stood by his record and had balanced the city's budget...
...vote total at midnight was Perk 97,892 and Pinkney...
...different loudspeaker. Disconcerting, that. So, at first, is the fact that the sound is not Mussorgsky's piano or Ravel's trumpet, but one of human voices-or rather, canned choral sounds transmogrified by Tomita's Mellotron, an electronic keyboard device that plays prerecorded tapes. Things perk up considerably with the first picture, "The Gnome," a succession of subterranean squeaks and giggles that resemble a band of tipsy trolls frolicking beneath Frankenstein's castle. As for "The Old Castle," it sounds like a caravan of balalaika players pursuing an Arabian shawm virtuoso...