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...bike lanes built, had them eliminated a few months later. By this year Koch had become so antibike that he banned the cycles from several major Manhattan avenues. The state supreme court in Manhattan overturned the ban last month, but did not overturn Police Commissioner Benjamin Ward's opinion about the city's pedalers. "They are scaring the public to death," says Ward, "and we've got to do something about...
...guys don't have to go to city hall or to the organization you'll bump into top state officials in hall-ways and get what you need," White told the members of the Democratic Club Ward Five members. Ward Five is in the Beacon Hill area right near the state capitol building...
Trim, in good shape, in his grey flannel suit, White hardly looked like the political boss that his ward-savvy rhetoric suggested. He said the politics of the Boston which he served were of an era gone...
...Danehy appears to be hedging his bets this year. Since 1967 he has won every election with a low-key campaign effort in precincts around the drugstore that his uncle founded in 1906. But now he has begun campaigning southwest of his bailiwick, in Councilor Sheila T. Russell's Ward 9. And Russell is at work in Danehy's Ward 11 for the first time...
...meantime, Bork's personal life had brightened. After a period of loneliness in Washington, he met and soon married Mary Ellen Pohl, a former Sacred Heart nun working for a conservative think tank. "He was raised a Protestant, married a Jew and then a Catholic," notes Ward Bowman, a former Yale law professor. "It's pretty hard to say he's bigoted." Not a member of a church, Bork describes himself as a "generic Protestant...