Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some think that the national attention garnered by the election of Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago, and the recent victory of Black city administrator Wilson Goode over former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo in that city's Democratic mayoral primary, will help galvanize local voters...
Graham, currently the only Black and only woman on the council, explains that about 4000 of the city's 10,418 Blacks are eligible to vote and registration drives are planned for later in the year by the Cambridge NAACP chapter. "I really do believe that Chicago and Philadelphia have had an impact on Boston and Cambridge," she says...
...think we are paying him what he is worth," says Corporation member Hugh Calkins '45. "But people don't take the presidency of Harvard University with the goal of getting a large salary.' Bok, in fact, has a certain amount of independent wealth, as the scion of an affluent Philadelphia family...
Comparing the heroines of "It Happened One Night" (1934) "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936). "The Philadelphia Story" (1939) and "Woman of the Year" (1941). Papas concluded that for the time period, these characters could be considered "feminists in their own right--strong intelligent women who exuded self-confidence" but that the mavic plots were designed to return them to their "proper place" in society...
...nature of basketball, some would say the flaw in basketball, is that the game is nearly always won or lost at the center position. Julius ("Dr. J") Erving of Philadelphia and Earvin ("Magic") Johnson of Los Angeles lead their teams artistically, but Erving is a forward and Johnson a guard. It is around the 76ers' Moses Malone and the Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the centers, that the current championship series, and the basketball universe itself, revolves...