Word: philadelphia
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...seemed clearer and surer than it has in a long time. This year the fireworks appeared to suggest a large and complicated and real sense of shared pleasure in the nation and what it represents. They shot up over New York harbor and the Washington Monument and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis and San Francisco and thousands of town squares and picnic grounds across the nation. The projectiles fired up and burst in the black summer night-magic bright sprays that looked like sudden sea anemones or supernovas, loud and martial with concussions, but fleeting and delicate...
...interviews seems less a display of thoughtful leadership than, to use Jackson's words, "a p.r. parade." The charge is that Mondale has been too obviously wooing party blocs: women (Ferraro, Collins and San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein); blacks (Mayors Thomas Bradley of Los Angeles and Wilson Goode of Philadelphia); Hispanics (Cisneros). Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas was the lone white male...
...what of W. Wilson Goode, the bright young Philadelphia mayor who resisted the heavy swing to Jackson in his city to back Mondale and even campaign for him. He hasn't been in office a year yet. And Rep. Geraldine Ferraro (D-New York). She's only a third-term congresswoman. Some pols have been languishing in the House and the Senate for decades waiting for chances like this...
Last week he met with Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode, who followed Los Angeles' Tom Bradley as the second black chief executive of a major city to receive a look over invitation. This week Mondale is scheduled to talk to New York Congresswoman Geraldine Ferraro and Kentucky Governor Martha Layne Collins; they join San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, who favorably impressed Mondale during her session, as women contenders. Also due in North Oaks is San Antonio Mayor Henry Cisneros, the first Hispanic to be considered. Despite the lengthening parade of applicants, at least one experienced pol was convinced that Mondale...
...Eastern Educational Network is a consortium of 48 public television stations in the Northeast To date, five affiliates--those in Boston, Hartford, New York, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh--have committed themselves to showing the Ivy League Game of the Week, but Frank said he was confident all of the stations would sign on by the fall...