Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When a politician talks, a dean listens." That, according to Dr. Joseph DiPalma, dean of Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, is the way some would-be students endorsed by legislators get into professional schools-at least those schools heavily supported by the state. Normally, no one is the wiser, but this month a federal trial in Philadelphia threw unexpected light on what apparently has been a time-honored custom. Herbert Fineman, 56, the powerful speaker of Pennsylvania's house of representatives, was found guilty of obstructing justice during a U.S. probe into admissions practices of Philadelphia...
...real orphan of a bill: no politician wanted to claim credit for its parentage. Small wonder. It proposed throwing one-third of the legislators in Massachusetts' 240-seat house of representatives out of jobs. "It wasn't me that pushed it," declared House Speaker Thomas McGee in a typical disclaimer last week. "It wasn't McGee...
Nonetheless, every politician capable of reading a map knew that the redistricting would inevitably be bloody. Given the thankless task of drawing new electoral districts. Majority Whip George Keverian realized that he could not possibly please all 194 fellow Democrats in the house, at least 53 of whom were bound to lose their jobs in the November 1978 election. For example, two liberal Boston representatives, who are longtime friends, will be pitted against each other in Boston's new Back Bay-Beacon Hill district: Elaine Noble, 33, the first avowed lesbian in a state assembly, and Barney Frank...
Died. Carlos Lacerda, 63, fiery, flamboyant anti-Communist journalist, publisher and politician; of a heart attack; in Rio de Janeiro. As governor of Guanabara state, which included Rio de Janeiro, he vociferously supported military leaders in overthrowing President Joao Goulart in 1964. Briefly thereafter a contender for President himself, he eventually, in 1969, was stripped of his political rights for opposing the military regime...
...seen reading The American Senator after he won the Democratic nomination in 1960. Former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan always kept a Trollope novel on his night table. He marveled at the paradox that Trollope's novels are so sound politically, while those of Disraeli, the most adroit politician of the Victorian era, are so patently false. John Kenneth Galbraith confesses to being a Trollope junkie. "For many years I didn't think I could go on vacation without a Trollope novel," says Galbraith. "He's a narcotic...