Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...campaign in which white votes were needed to win; he was only called back on Election Day to help turn out the vote in black neighborhoods. W. Wilson Goode has made it clear that he wants Jackson nowhere near his race for mayor of Philadelphia. And organizers of the mammoth demonstration planned for later this month to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the March on Washington are petrified that Jackson will attempt to dominate the event and make it a launching pad for his candidacy. "They're trying to hem me in by keeping all the speeches to five minutes...
More strictly pedagogic is a Philadelphia organization called the Better Baby Institute, which offers a training course to enable mothers to "multiply their baby's intelligence." Specifically, the school claims that parents can learn in one week of intense instruction (for a fee of $500) how to teach their infants to swim, to read, to do math, to speak foreign languages and to play the violin at the age of two. You can't make it to Philadelphia? "Better Baby Video," a California-based spinoff, can provide the same lessons in a weeklong course offered primarily in West...
...created her first serial, Search for Tomorrow, and moved to Philadelphia after marrying Bob Nixon, a Chrysler executive. The lone child of divorced parents, Agnes craved a big family. Soon, she recalls, "I was doing a 15-minute show at home and having babies and rearing them [four in all]. It was a cottage industry. I was just this strange mother in the suburbs of Philadelphia who wrote soap operas. And then it grew like Topsy and I sort of grew with it." As she grew, she also forced soap opera to grow...
East W L Pct. GB Philadelphia 58 51 532 -- Montreal 58 53 523 1 Pittsburgh 57 55 509 2 1/2 St. Louis 54 58 482 5 1/2 Chicago 52 61 46 8 Mets 45 68 398 15 West W L Pct. GB Atlanta 70 45 609 -- Los Angeles 62 50 554 6 1/2 Houston 58 54 518 10 1/2 San Diego 56 58 491 13 1/2 San Francisco 54 60 474 15 1/2 Cincinnati...
...Philadelphia 14. Pittsburgh...