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Returning to Newport last week, the Kennedys went all out in their vacationing. There were daily luncheon cruises aboard the presidential yacht Honey Fitz. The Honey Fitz anchored in quiet coves while a Secret Service powerboat hove alongside to speed Jackie through aquatic variations on a single water ski. Once...
"Determined Defender." Ben Willis is perhaps best known for his whopping salary: $48,500 a year. It makes him the nation's third-highest-paid public official, after President Kennedy ($100,000) and New York's Governor Rockefeller ($50,000). But not for nothing has Chicago's...
Willis grew up on a Maryland farm, attended a one-room school. He worked his way through George Washington University as an auto salesman, usher and hotel clerk, rose from country school teacher to superintendent of schools in Yonkers and Buffalo, N.Y. In 1953 Willis replaced Harvard-bound Herold Hunt...
"Everything Good." Willis decentralized Chicago's entire system into 20 separate districts (each with a population of 250,000) that could match suburbs for academic flexibility. He built 94 new schools and 92 new additions in a construction program that has yet to be tainted with scandal; the cost...
Going for Willis is a politically clean school board, which is free to write its own budget without sabotage by the city council. Also going for him is his own Spartan selfdiscipline, which often keeps him working until 3 a.m. His speeches run to clichés; his critics label...