Word: philadelphia
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...Harold Washington's boisterous victory rally in Chicago's Donnelley Hall last month, his supporters held aloft a banner that read RIZZO IS NEXT. The allusion was to Philadelphia's hard-nosed former mayor Frank Rizzo, who has fought an uphill battle against his black opponent, W. Wilson Goode, the city's former managing director, for the Democratic Party's mayoral nomination on May 17. Thus far, however, traditionally Democratic Philadelphia has successfully ducked the racial mudslinging that made Chicago's mayoral election one of the bitterest in American history. Both Rizzo and Goode...
...Philadelphia Daily News poll released last week showed Goode with a hefty 26-point lead among the city's nearly 888,000 registered Democrats. Goode is expected to capture better than 85% of the city's approximately 389,000 black Democratic voters. He may take between 30% and 35% of the whites hi a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans 5 to 1. Despite the statistics, aides to both candidates agree that race, an X factor in the voting booth, could still make the election close...
There is no clear favorite among the Republicans. But the stakes for the victor could be high. Should Goode win, and the Nov. 8 general election divide along racial lines, Philadelphia might end up with its first Republican mayor in 32 years...
...place was the Lower Quadrangle at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where two weeks ago students were celebrating the last week of classes and blowing off a little pre-finals pressure at the annual Spring Fling. In the carnival-like atmosphere, filled with strains of rock and the smell of hamburgers and beer, thousands of students relax under the approving eye of the administration. The first impression the outside observer gets is that Penn students take themselves seriously, but not too seriously to preclude a weekend of total chaotic...
Spread over 240 acres across the Schuylkill River from downtown Philadelphia, and isolated from its lower-middle class, predominantly Black neighbors, the single campus is home for all of Penn's graduate and undergraduate schools. The sheer size of the school both physically and in enrollment tends to breed diversity and differences sometimes too much according to some students...