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Even among newspaper editors who support the Post's enterprise, there are many who say that both the Post and the Times are making a mountain out of a compost heap. "Let the titans fight it out," sniffs Claude Sitton, editor of the Raleigh News and Observer and a former top Timesman. Miami Herald Executive Editor John McMullan suggested that for the next Watergate miscreant's memoirs, newspapers collude on a single syndication bid, not to exceed...
Isabella Walton Cannon, newly elected mayor of Raleigh, N.C., explaining why, at age 73, she went into politics: "I'm an active person-I couldn't sit still. I retired at 65 from the business office of the North Carolina State University library, and I figured I'd live to be 90. That's a good chunk of time. I'm not the book-club type...
Generally, election winners were an eclectic group for whom age, sex or race seemed to be no barrier. Denying that she was a "little old lady in tennis shoes," retired Librarian Isabelle Cannon, 73, proved to be fast on her feet as she upset Jyles Coggins, 56, mayor of Raleigh, N.C. "How can you debate with someone who is old enough to be your mother?" complained Coggins. Said Cannon, who was backed by groups in favor of controlled growth for the city: "Raleigh is ready for a fresh new face...
...Classics faculty must still accept Raleigh's nomination, but Bowersock said, "I expect the nomination to be approved. There has never been any trouble in the past...
...Raleigh said she hopes to spend two years at Oxford's Hertford College, adding that she chose Hertford because it has a special program in the Classics and is coeducational...