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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last fall Bilandic had looked unbeatable. An easy-going type who constantly sang Chicago's praises, he staged a successful summer festival along the lakefront that attracted hundreds of thousands of fun seekers. He married a svelte socialite, Heather Morgan, and played the proud host to President Jimmy Carter, who slept in the mayor's house...
...venturesome, restless but essentially very moral spirit. She has, we see, merely been waiting for something more rewarding to occupy her energies and her realistic, feisty if untutored mind. The character of Reuben, the organizer, represents a triumph of sorts. He is the first accurate representation onscreen of a type that has proved to be dramatically elusive: the New York Jewish intellectual-activist. Such a person is usually the odd man out, an exotic everywhere in America beyond his native streets. Yet frequently he is capable of winning out over prejudice and suspicion with his quick wit and his obvious...
...Block with all the gusto of visiting the dentist. So it is rather appropriate that Henry Bloch, 56, the chief executive and prime-time TV pitchman, looks like a small-town tooth driller. He is a direct, plain-spoken Midwesterner in a brown suit and brown shoes, the type of fellow for whom the word unpretentious was invented. For his prodigious charities and civic good works, fellow citizens named him Mr. Kansas City, but he hides most of his trophies and awards in a small, dark closet...
...Company"--have supplied high-quality programs which fill a vital educational role. Disbursing funds through a central bureau might reduce support for such groups. It would no doubt, foster competition among local and national sources. What the commission labels a "useful, healthy tension" threatens to degenerate into the same type of conflicts that once plauged both...
...Wrestling is the type of sport where most people can be as good as they want to be if they are willing to put in the time," says Paul Widerman, freshman standout on the Harvard wrestling team. It was Widerman's willingness to commit the time that first attracted him to the sport...