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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expected, Democrats kept most of the mayors' jobs in big cities, but in many cases party dissidents or independents bucked the regular organization and won. In Pittsburgh, Interim Mayor Richard Caliguiri, a Democrat who ran as an independent with support from the ethnic wards, beat Democratic candidate Thomas Foerster, a more conventional liberal. It was the third successive mayoralty defeat for the once mighty Pittsburgh machine. In Cleveland, scrappy Dennis Kucinich, 31, a former three-term city councilman, edged out Edward Feighan, 30, the candidate of the regular Democratic organization, and promised a thorough housecleaning at city hall...
Each month, Blumenthal, Schultze and McIntyre lunch with the President and Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns. Burns also breakfasts weekly with Blumenthal. Despite that regular contact, Burns is not a member of the inner circle, and his insistence on moderate growth is out of step with the Administration's current desire to push the economy ahead at a faster pace. Burns, of course, wields great independent power over the nation's money supply; last week he reaffirmed his determination, despite Administration criticism, to throttle back money growth in order to "undernourish" inflation...
...Wellesley relays also afforded Walsh an opportunity to size up some of the squads that Harvard will have to deal with in the regular season...
...Eagles figure to be superior to the Crimson in these shorter events, but the regular-season match will include 100-meter and 200-meter events in each of the four strokes, rather than the 50-meter and 100-meter races that are usually featured. Harvard should shine at the longer distances...
...such a situation, Michael Herr was lucky, and he knew it. Writing for Esquire meant that he could ignore the canons of establishment journalism; he could forget the official interviews with generals who spouted obvious lies, he could forget the press briefings. Vietnam didn't fit into the regular news style, but it fit Herr's. He was able to write long, first-person essays that were much more likely to capture the reality of the war than descriptions of troop movements. He could relate what the war was like from the troops' point of view, rather than the generals...