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When he died at age 83 in 1958, Curley had run Massachusetts as Governor for a term and was four times sent to the U.S. House of Representatives. But he was mayor of Boston ("Mayor of the Poor," he was called) for a full 16 years, four terms, the last of which was partly spent in jail on a mail-fraud conviction. Hizzoner continued to draw his salary while behind bars, gracefully donating it to other Boston prisoners...
...spending for pet programs." Adds Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank: "The key question is, what happens when unemployment starts moving up to 7% or 7.5%? Will the Administration have the guts to hang in with a moderate policy that provides some long-term hope that we will get inflation down...
Fear, hate and exploitation are themes that haunt Harry Crews. His fiction (Car, A Feast of Snakes) is peopled by grotesque and tragic victims of the rural South. As his autobiography, A Childhood, reveals, Crews earned his vision. He is, to use his own term, a "grit," a poor white brought up on a Depression dirt farm in Georgia, fearful of landlords, Government, floods, of life itself. Maturity has brought courage, but the shudders of childhood remain. So does the gallery of odd personae who enliven his latest book of personal essays, Blood and Grits...
...reforms also recommend that every full-time Faculty member teach a minimum of one tutorial a term...
...Wall Street Journal began it all innocuously enough with a front-page article last month titled, "To Some at Harvard, Telling Lies Becomes a Matter of Course." The story was about a fall-term Business School class on "Competitive Decision Making" taught by Howard Raiffa, Ramsay Professor of Managerial Economics. William M. Bulkeley, a 28-year-old writer who recently moved to Boston after six years with the Journal, knew someone who had taken Raiffa's course, and thought it might make a good subject for an article...