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...first to move was Wilson Frost, a black alderman who declared himself acting mayor on the grounds that he was president pro tem of the 50-member city council (one alderman from every Chicago ward). Frost soon found himself out in the cold. A group of council members chose Michael Bilandic, 53, to be acting mayor. A bland, methodical al derman, Bilandic was chairman of the finance committee and the late mayor's right-hand man. Commenting on his origins in a rare display of levity, Biland ic noted that the two-man Croatian delegation in the city council...
...short period, Lockheed will be headed by Robert W. Haack, former president of the New York Stock Exchange, who was named chairman pro tem. He will share power in a new "office of the chief executive" with two other officials: Roy Anderson, vice chairman for finance and administration, and Lawrence O. Kitchen, president. While briefly in charge, Haack said, his top priority will be to refinance Lockheed's debt, now about $600 million. That may be difficult; Democratic Senator William Proxmire of Wisconsin is planning to introduce legislation demanding a speedup in Lockheed's repayment of the Government-guaranteed portion...
...case, no hearings are needed to document the banking sys tem's difficulties. That is being done by the earnings reports of the banks themselves. These make clear that the banks are suffering a financial hangover from the recession, which left many borrowers unable to repay their debts, and also from the banks' own past vigorous push to make loans, some of which were questionable in the first place...
Until last year, the downtown district and the tax base of Lima, Ohio (pop. 55,000), were disappearing at approximately the same rate. The bus sys tem had broken down, the turreted old railway station was closed, and the streets were full of potholes...
...Galley trial as in the Water gate trials, publicity alone does not seem compelling reason to abort the jury sys tem. By reductio ad absurdum, that would establish a principle that fame, not the truth, shall make you free. All a defendant's constitutional guarantees remain, but the basis of the jury system is still a faith that in the end, jurors are rationally capable of rendering judgment, as if they were kicking Dr. Johnson's rock. ∙Lance Morrow