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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With dogged zeal, Alderman William Singer, 34, has visited every public school and transit station and nearly every supermarket, bowling alley and bingo parlor in Chicago during his 16-month campaign to defeat five-term Mayor Richard Daley in next week's primary. At many of the stops, city employees-among them transit workers, policemen and firemen-have been sidling up to offer encouragement to the maverick Democrat. "Lotsa luck, Alderman. We're with you," are words often heard. That people who owe their jobs to Daley's political machine would even cautiously express such support...
...bills blocking the food stamp proposal last week suggests that many of Ford's reductions will be rejected. Pechman reckons that the most Ford can expect is to cut spending by about $4 billion. In addition, Nathan sees Congress increasing spending for public employment, energy research and mass transit...
...said that since the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority has not yet removed its subway equipment from the site, construction could not have begun anyway...
Grave Questions. Unquestionably, rationing would generate wide spread inequities. Lower-income motorists would be penalized because they tend to drive inefficient old cars that get poor gasoline mileage. Residents of rural and suburban areas would suffer more than city dwellers, because they are not served by adequate mass transit systems. A network of local rationing boards would probably be created to deal with hardship claims. But there would be much bureaucratic adjudication of minute details of Americans' private and business lives. By FEA'S estimate, rationing would require the creation of a massive bureaucracy of as many...
...People were paying 10 cents and parking all day while taking the rapid transit into Boston," he added. "The police couldn't possibly get around to checking every meter, so they are getting away with...