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...went for the wild, wet West. Barely recuperated from winter storms that pounded Pacific Coast piers and unloaded record snows by the driftful, the region has been drowning in one of the wettest springs ever. Swollen by heavy rain and snow runoff in the mountains, Utah's Great Salt Lake is projected to peak at 4,204 ft. above sea level in June, nearly a foot more than officials estimated only months ago. The culprit: a spate of unseasonably cool, moist weather that has prevented evaporation, which normally acts to counterbalance the effects of the runoff. Damages to property...
Brown and Sprague acknowledge that their harvests are bigger than the average tongman's. But the fact is that none of the watermen are getting huge hauls these days. Nitrogen, carried into the bay by runoff from neighboring farm lands, has lowered the Chesapeake's oxygen level. The primary victims are the oysters, whose numbers have been declining in recent years. The secondary victims are watermen like Brown, whose family has been working the water for three generations, and Sprague, a Californian who was sent to Maryland as a serviceman and liked it so well that he stayed...
Furthermore, the electoral set-up seems less likely to allow the racial split which allowed Washington to walk in. Chicago's system says that anyone with a plurality of the votes in a crowded field cops the prize. But Boston dictates that a runoff take place between the two top vote-getters, so any candidate has to win over a majority of the city's ballots. Consequently, White can knock off five of his six challengers this year by garnering no more than 30 percent of the vote. Then, if he faces King in the final, the election may turn...
...from the South End. King finished third in the 1979 mayoral election, behind Joseph F. Timilty and ahead of Finnegan. Timilty is not running, so King may well gain one of the top two spots in the September primary and a shot at victory in a two-man November runoff...
...home in Arkansas as an effete snob. He was unseated in 1980 by Republican Frank White, who portrayed himself as the down-home candidate. This time Clinton ran as a man who was not too smart to listen to the people. He won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in a runoff and faces a November rematch with White...