Word: towns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of town, Chicago is," crooned Mayor Harold Washington with more enthusiasm than tune. He had good reason to sing: the elated mayor was celebrating his re-election and emergence as Chicago's most dominant political figure since the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Washington took 53.5% of the vote last week to trounce his archenemy, former Alderman Edward Vrdolyak (42.2%), and Republican Donald Haider (4.3%). Cook County Assessor Thomas C. Hynes withdrew from the race 36 hours before the polls opened...
PAULY DOESN'T like it. "Well, I'll tell ya," he told Dennis, "No commie law from the Mayor is gonna work in this town. We like our sports and we're gonna keep...
...nine-member council refused a request for official sponsorship of a local mission to investigate reports that Salvadoran troops recently invaded San Jose Las Flores, the Central American town which may become Cambridge's symbolic "sister city...
Looking ahead, the Crimson's future opponents are no slouches. Brown comes to town April 24, followed by Yale the next day. Harvard closes out the season May 6 against traditional powerhouse Princeton...
...land the accelerator. Texas is promoting ten different sites for the tunnel and considering a $1 billion bond issue. Says Texas Governor Bill Clements of the SSC: "It could be bigger than NASA." Particle-physics fans are cropping up in the most unlikely places. In Malone, N.Y., a small town near the Canadian border, 800 people turned out to hear physicists lecture about the project...