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...been more than 60 years since a school went up in Chelsea, a crumbling city of 26,000 immigrants and blue-collar workers on Boston Harbor. Even now, with the state offering to pay 90% of the costs, the city board of aldermen refuses to spend local funds for a badly needed high school and elementary school. Language and cultural obstacles compound the system's problems: over half of the 3,300 students speak Spanish or Cambodian at home. Faced with sagging test scores and a 17% annual dropout rate, many parents and local leaders seem willing to try anything...
...finally, at 4 a.m., elected Chicago's acting mayor. Normally calm and courtly, Sawyer was so shaken by the twelve-hour wrangle that he considered pulling out of the contest. He feared not only that he could not unite blacks but that the rising emotions might turn violent. Five aldermen supporting Sawyer said they had received death threats; at least one wore a bulletproof vest during the wild debate. But after asking ministers to pray with him in an upstairs office, Sawyer decided to stay in the race. He got the votes of six black aldermen, including himself...
Sawyer's first task will be to persuade the late mayor's disappointed followers that he has not made any deals with the white aldermen who gave him his new job. "When Harold Washington proclaimed that the machine is dead, he was speaking the absolute truth," Sawyer declared after being sworn in. "Harold, buddy, I will not let you down." But unless such rhetoric is followed by deeds, most Chicago voters, black and white, will remain skeptical...
...Louis law firm and married Jane Ann Byrnes, a manager at a shoe company whom he had dated at Northwestern. Immersing himself in the affairs of his old south-side neighborhood, where delivery of city services was the major issue, he rose from ward committeeman to the board of aldermen by 1971. With relentless energy and a flair for press coverage, Gephardt helped residents keep grocery stores and hospitals in the neighborhood and massage parlors out. He developed a quick eye for compromise, harnessing reluctant conservative aldermen to his own group of Young Turks to start the city's revival...
...denied Michaelson's charge that she is ignorant as to the role of the Board of Aldermen in New Haven's government...