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Parish will be joined up front by Kevin McHale, a towering rookie and Cedric "Cornbread" Maxwell, the wispy veteran who led the league in both field goal percentage and annoying ability to wrest rebounds from much heavier...
...very much in control of the Detroit convention?of its machinery, its rules and its platform. The Sunbelt's polyester suits and white cowboy hats and STOP ERA buttons far outnumbered the striped ties and horn-rimmed glasses of the Northeast. Recognizing that there was no way to wrest back the control that had once been theirs, the moderates simply sat back and watched the show. Massachusetts Congressman Silvio Conte, a liberal firebrand on the platform committee at five previous conventions, backed out of serving on the panel this year. Said he: "What's the use? The numbers aren...
...saga grows all the time. Last year Illinois Corrections Director Gayle Franzen had to mount a shakedown like a military maneuver to wrest control of Stateville Correctional Center from the inmate gangs who utterly ran the place. Says Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz: "One of the major issues on the prison-reform agenda is how to get the prisons back in the hands of the correction people. Too many prisons are in the hands of inmates." Far too many of the abominations associated with prisons turn out to be not flukes but widespread conditions...
...there a groundswell for Republican Maverick John Anderson. His support is strongest among voters under 35 and among those with incomes of more than $25,000. But only 32% of the people surveyed would like him to run as an independent candidate if, as now seems certain, he cannot wrest the Republican nomination from Reagan; 48% would not. And if he were to run as an independent, the poll indicates that he would finish third in the general elections, with 20% of the vote. The rest would be divided almost evenly between Carter and Reagan...
Even struggling Chrysler Corp. managed to wrest some good tidings from the generally dismal news by reaching preliminary agreement with 175 of its major domestic and foreign lenders on a $650 million aid package needed to qualify for federal loan guarantees...