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...party hands for half a century. Byrne endorsed Washington after her primary defeat, then decided to oppose him through a write-in bid, then decided not to. Few of the machine's 50 ward bosses have offered their nominal nominee much help, and last week Alderman Roman Pucinski became the eighth of them openly to endorse the Republican. He said he could not ask his present workers to support Washington, who has pledged to abolish the patronage power of the party machine. Said Pucinski: "Why should I give him the guillotine with which to chop off my head...
While Cook County has filed suit in court challenging the preliminary census figures, city officials have begun checking the count on their own. Said Alderman Roman Pucinski, a protege of Daley's political machine, which used to be accused of casting votes for Chicagoans whether dead or alive: "The bodies are there. They are just not being counted...
...Roman Pucinski: The Polish alderman...
Streetcar Named Desire. Mass transit at last. In the primary election in Illinois last week, a mass-transit proposal rode to victory while former U.S. Attorney Dakin Williams failed in his second bid for a Senate seat. He once said of an opponent, Roman C. Pucinski: "Poochie? The only thing he could be is Stanley Kowalski in the greatest American play ever written--A Streetcar Named Desire by my brother, Tennessee Williams, the greatest playwright who ever lived...
Although McGovern carried Mayor Daley's bailiwick of Chicago, he did not do well enough there and lost the state. Nixon garnered the Prairie State's 26 electoral votes with 57 per cent of the popular vote. Republican Senator Charles Percy turned back a challenge from Roman Pucinski as expected with 60 per cent of the vote. In perhaps GOP governor Richard Ogilvie and Democratic challenger Daniel Walker were locked in a tight race that would probably not be decided until the woe hours of the morning...