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...beginning, mayoral gains were mainly in cities with black majorities or areas of rapid transitions to large black populations. Many whites were more willing to support a black for Congress or the state legislature than for mayor. "The mayor is the symbol for the entire city, and some whites do find it difficult to invest that kind of leadership in blacks," says Barnett. But in the past few years, black mayoral candidates have fared better in garnering votes in predominantly white areas. "For the first time large segments of ethnic Americans have to live under a black administration...
When she learned that executive clemency had been offered by a shady pal of the Governor's to a criminal client for $20,000, Marie got a rapid course in political sophistication. Outraged, she began denying pardons to favored felons...
...Lipton, the producer of the special, has sent over the script, and Hope's staff of four writers has come up with some jokes for his monologue. As he rehearses the material for his visitor, it becomes ever clearer that although the rapid-fire rhythm once clocked at 44 jokes in four minutes has slowed, the style endures. Hope is still the All-American wisecracker. His only living peer among comedians, George Burns, 87, found himself a new guise: the worldly-wise old geezer. Hope does not change: he leads with his chin and the little golf swing...
...addition, the study argued that a more realistic cost effectiveness would be achieved by using the Superfund as it was intended-for rapid cleanup of conditions threatening lives and health. Declared the report: "In sum, with control, not action, the watchword for Superfund, the regions and the program have suffered...
...that big"), tries to muffle the sound of Alka-Seltzer s fizzing. The show was a form of recall for the audience ("Hey, l remember that one!"), not only of the commercials but of performers who appeared in them 1 prior to becoming stars. A scrawny Sylvester Stallone hawked Rapid Shave; John Travolta sang in the shower for Safeguard; and a caLlow but ingratiating Dustin Hoffman crawled in and out of a Volkswagen, registering surprise at finding no engine under the hood. After an hour of this-interrupted of course by more commercials-viewers may have felt rather Like...