Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William Coleman Jr., 56, Secretary of Transportation, may go back to practicing law in Philadelphia; he has not been discouraging speculation that he would like to run for Governor of Pennsylvania...
Czarist Pogroms. HIAS, whose tradition of helping refugees from Russia reaches back to the czarist pogroms of the 1880s, has thus far resisted Israeli pressure. Last week the Israeli government dispatched two top officials, Yehuda Avner and Nehemia Levanon, to a meeting of Jewish organizations in Philadelphia to press its case. Still, no decision was taken on the issue of cutting off aid to dropouts...
Ford, too, reached new heights of spirit and crowd appeal in the last days of the long campaign, though he had to nurse his ailing throat with everything from cough lozenges to hot chicken soup. As he pleaded with a large audience in Philadelphia to "confirm me with your votes now just as you confirmed me with your prayers in August of 1974," Ford visibly impressed his listeners. On election eve, the President flew back to Grand Rapids to vote. Perhaps it was the emotion welling up from the huge welcoming throng, perhaps it was the memories of his youth...
...candidates-both 38 and both articulate and able-staged a Pier 6 campaign. Green's commercials carried the tagline MAN AGAINST THE MONEY-though the Democrat spent nearly $ 1 million himself. Green is a bitter enemy of Philadelphia's Mayor Frank Rizzo, but Heinz depicted Green as an unwholesome machine politician, captive of the Philadelphia Democratic organization that his late father (whom Green succeeded in Congress) controlled for years...
Seeing Paris. When he was 15 Stallone and his mother moved to Philadelphia, the setting of Rocky. Soon bored with street-gamy life there, he took off for Europe and landed a job as a bouncer in the girls' dorm of The American School of Switzerland. "It was fox-in- the-hen-house time," says Stallone with a grin. The highlight of his bouncer career came when he chaperoned a group of girls on a visit to Paris, boarded them in a cheap pension and pocketed most of the ample hotel money. "What the hell," he says. "They...