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WHRB was only slightly affected by the militant mood of the 1960s, says former President James B. Porter '70. "The time that I was president was a very quiet time for WHRB," he says. "There were still an awful lot of traditionalists at the station...
...classical music continued to be the backbone of the station. "From what we could gather, we were one of the top two or three FM classical stations," says Porter. At the time, the FM market was very small. "That's where you found the hard core classical music and the real traditional jazz and folk," Porter says...
...labor households voted for L.B.J.; by the time Jimmy Carter ran for re-election in 1980, the Democrats' share of the union vote had dropped to 50%. "I don't even read the stuff they send me," says Robert McConnachie, a Reagan sup porter who belongs to the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in Avon Township, Mich. "They can't tell me how to vote." Just as important, a dwindling percentage of the work force is in the labor movement. According to the Bureau of National Affairs, a private research group...
Dirty politics are by no means new to North Carolina. In 1950, voters were treated to a rough-and-tumble slugfest between Willis Smith and Frank Porter Graham. Smith, the Republican candidate, doctored photographs to show Graham's wife purportedly dancing with a black man. Red-baiting was rampant. And a young man named Jesse Helms, it is alleged, was intimately involved in Smith's negative propoganda campaign...
...North Cambridge area, extending from just north of the Cambridge Common up to Porter Square, has been changing in the past few years. As one resident, who favors Doyle's proposed townhouses over other projects, remarks, this threatens to make this stretch of Massachusetts Avenue into "Highrise Avenue." Two highrise condominiums have gone up within feet of the Francis Allyn site--in the past two years. The lucrative development potential of the popular neighborhood along with Cambridge's notoriously tight rental market has heightened the commission's dilemma...