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...even hard-boiled can be overdone. Says Evan Hunter, who as Ed McBain has written more than three dozen books in the 87th Precinct series: "For me, 'hard-boiled' means not turning away from a dead body and going into the hall to vomit. It means going into a morgue and smelling a stench that makes you want to wash your hands for days." In short, unflinching realism, a misunderstood term. Says Elmore Leonard, the macabre ironist of crime and punishment: "If I were to ever write a private-eye story, and try to make it as realistic...
...appeal was, perhaps, the only clear-cut revelation to emerge from the Rube Goldberg process that Michigan has adopted for picking delegates to the nominating convention that is still more than two years away. Last week 10,110 potential candidates signed up to run in August to become precinct delegates; the winners will eventually select delegates for district meetings, which will then select delegates for a statewide convention, which will choose Michigan's delegates to the national convention early in 1988. Confusing? Yes. But the contest last week was to see who could get the most people to sign...
Michigan's convoluted convention contraption moves into high gear on May 27, the deadline for filing petitions to run in the 5,904 precinct elections to be held in early August. Those selected will meet at district conventions in January 1988 to elect delegates to a state convention, and they in turn will choose the delegates who will go on to the national convention. Michigan's will be the first Republican delegates chosen, and that may help the state steal some of the thunder from the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary. But as former Governor George Romney, 78, notes...
Part of the reason it has got out of hand is that Bush and Kemp are both making the Michigan precinct races a test of their early strength. Bush has been in Michigan seven times in the past year; Kemp has visited nine times since the beginning of 1985 and returns again this Saturday.Bush's political- action committee has raised some $400,000 in the state, $150,000 of which will be spent there; the Michigan Opportunity Society, which supports Kemp, will have raised and spent about $150,000 by May 27. Although Robert Dole and Howard Baker have pretty...
...chief has further angered her subordinates by limiting smoking on the job. Each precinct is allowed only one office and one squad car in which smoking is permitted. Harrington has reprimanded officers who abuse citizens. Last year she banned the use of the carotid ("sleeper") hold after a Portland policeman used the neck grip and inadvertently killed a black security guard who had no criminal record. Two officers responded to the ban by selling T shirts inscribed DON'T CHOKE 'EM. SMOKE 'EM. Harrington had the officers fired, but they were reinstated by an arbitrator...