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...normal strength among the electorate after the McGovern debacle of 1972. The party picked up the governorship in New Jersey and took control of both houses of the state legislature. Democratic mayors were elected in New York, Minneapolis and Louisville, and black Democrats took over city hall in Detroit, Raleigh, N.C., and Dayton. Democrats swept municipal elections in Connecticut and Kentucky...
...Raleigh...
...sharply aware of how religious ideas about good and evil, have become psychoanalytic attempts to treat the troubled soul as if it were a badly adjusted carburetor. He also remains deeply attached to his ex-wife Dolly. When she runs into difficulties with her play about Sir Walter Raleigh, Smackenfelt enriches her script with research and a model characterization of Raleigh that almost leaves the actor with a permanent Devonshire accent...
Bridge, however, was the first Harvard finisher, and thus received the Raleigh Grand Prix bicycle donated by the Bicycle Exchange. Allis and Bridge, along with Jim Williams and John Baldo, broke from the main pack coming up the final, long hill to finish well ahead of the others...
...Harvard, some friends, without his knowledge, nominated him as a Democratic candidate for the North Carolina legislature. Although eager to begin his law practice, he grudgingly accepted and, to his surprise, won in his Republican district. Ervin's talent for the deft oratorical put-down surfaced in Raleigh. When the state legislature in 1925 was convulsed by a Bible-belt debate over whether to allow the teaching of evolution in public schools, Ervin helped prevent such a ban by ridiculing it. "Only one good thing can come of this," he protested. "The monkeys in the jungle will be pleased...