Word: popular
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Known for leading an investigation of the Cambridge Housing Administration (CHA) and free of obligations to any organized political groups, Lawrence W. Frisoli, one of four new city councilors, says he will use his popular support to enact his ambitious policies...
...that stage unless it secures the right to build a political apparatus (as it already has in the universities) capable of affecting state power and thereby addressing the aspirations of the masses that the FSLN, more than any other movement in Nicaragua, represents. Such an apparatus would translate the popular following of the front into a mass political organization capable of achieving victory through a free electoral process. In order to build that apparatus it will first be necessary for the FSLN to secure the legality currently denied it, and to insure that legality by demanding participation in the provisional...
Long active in episcopal committees, Quinn won by a vote of 146 to 112 over a relative newcomer, St. Paul's popular Archbishop John R. Roach, 56. Roach was promptly elected the bishops' vice president, giving the hierarchy's more liberal element a voice near...
...vouchsafed: the ideal detective story is 50,000 words long; the short story is not a good form for mysteries; neither is much love interest, nor an overcomplicated midsection of the plot. Her ideas began as a couple of random images: "Girl and not really sister-August." Contrary to popular belief, writing was never easy for the author of 68 books. She fretted for weeks before getting into a novel and required constant expressions of reassurance from Sir Max. "I got very tired, and I also got cross," she states at one point. "Writing has that effect, I find...
DIED. René Goscinny, 51, creator of Astérix, France's most popular comic strip; of a heart attack; in Paris. Astérix, a diminutive Gaul, was a spokesman for all the shrewd little guys who fearlessly take on bigger adversaries-not for ideological reasons but in order to be able to eat, drink and be merry. Three weeks before he died, Goscinny realized his dream of being syndicated...