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Roosevelt says the new system will allow him to concentrate his campaign on the area where he has lived for four years. The district which is commonly referred to as the "most widely contested most spirited seat in the city," according to city councilor Raymond L. Flynn, includes students, elderly, upper class residents, and "a mix of third or later generation Irish, Hispanics, and Blacks," Roosevelt said...
...handily were Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia, Henry Jackson of Washington and John Stennis of Mississippi, the 81year-old dean of the Senate now starting his seventh term. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, greeted on election night by supporters chanting, " '84! '84! '84!," beat Republican Raymond Shamie, 61% to 39%. On the Republican side, Orrin Hatch of Utah and Malcolm Wallop of Wyoming, both considered in trouble at the polls early on, won easily. Some of the major races...
...Jersey's Millicent Fenwick, artfully portrayed as the aristocrat-legislator Lacey Davenport, is one of his exceptions. Adding welcome bursts of mature wit to the rambunctious world of "Doonesbury," Davenport pursues Washington no-good-niks with persistence and good taste. After vigorously lecturing a mobster friend of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan for making late-night death threats, she wonders aloud whether she has "hurt the poor man's feelings...
...with a handwritten note demanding money "if you want to stop the killing." But when his picture flashed on the TV news, detectives in Kansas City recognized him as James W. Lewis, who had been freed on murder charges stemming from the 1978 mutilation in Kansas City of one Raymond West. A nationwide arrest alert was ordered...
Philip Marlowe got $25 a day plus expenses. That was a fair amount of money in 1946, when Humphrey Bogart portrayed Raymond Chandler's fictional private eye in The Big Sleep. Marlowe would be stunned by what inflation has done to the price of detective work. Today, the typical gumshoe charges at least $35 an hour for snooping and stakeouts...