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...increased spending for education and health, lower taxes for the working class and higher levies on the affluent. He promises "a bold plan for a new economic structure." But many Americans long ago lost faith in such primordial liberalism. Nathan Landow, Maryland party chairman and a major campaign fund raiser, concedes that Harkin's record could turn off wealthy contributors, not to mention moderate voters. "But Tom has a fiery way about him that will catch on," Landow says. "Maybe this time we need the messenger and can relax a little about the message...
...other practitioners have the show-biz pizzazz that Williamson brings to the lecture circuit. She has linked herself with Hollywood's cause-consciousness by founding the Centers for Living, bicoastal organizations dedicated to providing home help for those with life-threatening diseases. Williamson is also the prime fund raiser for Project Angel Food, a program that delivers 200 gourmet meals daily to dying AIDS patients in the Los Angeles area. Among the 800 volunteers who help with Angel Food are recording mogul David Geffen, Shirley MacLaine, Bette Midler, painter David Hockney and 20th Century Fox head Barry Diller. Most...
...rally at a downtown convention center he delivered a typically bombastic Save Our Nation spiel, including his usual appeal to overhaul welfare and do away with quotas and set-aside programs for minority businessmen. The rally drew a meager audience of 30 people and was pitiful as a fund raiser. Duke, however, profited handsomely: he got a chance to soften his racist image without saying anything...
...best hitter every year but one (1916) between 1907 and 1919. Talk about typecasting! Rose broke Cobb's long-standing record for most hits (4,191) in 1985 and went on to collect 4,256 before retiring in 1986; like Cobb, he had a reputation as a hell raiser on the field and off. While Rose never sharpened his spikes to tear up infielders, both enjoyed good fistfights with opponents. For good measure, Cobb was also accused of gambling. If Rose's movie career takes off, maybe next time he can play yet another celebrated baseball reprobate: Pete Rose...
...Savage had a change of heart? Just a year ago, during a bitter primary fight, the Democratic Congressman from Chicago ripped into opponent Mel Reynolds for accepting "Jewish money." How strange, then, that invitations to last week's $500-a-head "Gus Savage for Congress" fund raiser in Washington went to some of the same organizations he had vowed to "run back to Highland Park where you came from." What's more, the invitations carried the name of House Speaker Tom Foley, who had professed to be "disturbed" by Savage's inflammatory campaign rhetoric. The Speaker didn't turn...