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...winning candidate flashes a toothpaste smile and a boyish charm. He wears button-down shirts, pleated slacks and wire-rimmed glasses that suggest his Ivy League background. Clearly, Kurt Schmoke, 37, winner of the Democratic mayoral primary in Baltimore, represents a new breed of big-city black politician. He is no graduate of the clubhouse system dominated for some 30 years by William Schaefer, Baltimore's respected former white mayor, who was elected Governor of Maryland last November. Instead, Schmoke, a Rhodes scholar, is out of Yale, Harvard Law School and Oxford. Last week he defeated a black politician from...
...some blacks he symbolizes what the Rev. Douglas Miles, a Baltimore religious leader, calls the "promise of what has historically been touted as the best of the black community -- squeaky clean, intellectual and an achiever." Schmoke was a star quarterback in high school and student-body president at Yale, served as an aide to President Jimmy Carter, and was appointed an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Baltimore. Running for office for the first time in 1982, he was elected the city's state's attorney...
...Adam Dixon blazed home in 1:50.7. a personal best. However, Brown's Osman Lake broke the tape in 1:50.6. In the 400-meter hurdles, thinclad Lance Miller came to the wire in a personal best of 53.5 seconds, but he finished (you guessed it) second behind Julian Schmoke of Dartmouth...
...book's most interesting parts are insider's reports. One reason that a tense faculty voted to make academic work voluntary during the crisis weekend was the startling speech of Kurt Schmoke, the normally fire-breathing black secretary of the senior class. Instead of spouting abusive rhetoric, Schmoke spoke "only five or six brief sentences, to this effect: The students on this campus are confused, they're frightened. They don't know what to think. You are older than we are, and more experienced. We want guidance from you, moral leadership. On behalf of my fellow...
Both teams scored in the closing minutes of the half. Harvard took the lead when Kelly climaxed a 45-yard drive with a five-yard scamper around the end. Yale evened the count as Schmoke drilled a short pass to slippery halfback Bernie Sowley to gain a half time...