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Thanks to the well-oiled Democratic machine of Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley and his own lingering reputation as a liberal standard bearer, Douglas, 73, enters the race as the probable favorite. Nonetheless, in two years of assiduous politicking, Percy has managed to make himself almost as well known as Douglas. Moreover, the Cook County machine, which traditionally has counted on solid support from Chicago's Negroes, has antagonized civil rights groups by foot dragging on school integration, housing, welfare and poverty programs. Even last year Percy showed impressive strength in the Negro wards. "It will...
...customer. During the Christmas rush, Bullock's of Los Angeles invites customers to pick up one of two lapel buttons as they enter: a "Browse 'n' poke" one that will warn salespeople away or a "Find 'n' flee" one that will get its bearer immediate service. To get maximum effect from a sale, Detroit's Martin Alpert & Son jewelry store instituted midnight to 3 a.m. hours to accommodate night-shift workers. For favored customers, I. Magnin of San Francisco will dispatch a salesperson and a fitter anywhere in the U.S. to show...
...help them is spreading among the northeasterners. Villagers in provinces where rural development work has not begun are asking local officials when their turn will come. Indeed, when the Interior Minister, General Prapas Charussatira, visited the town of Nongkhai to initiate an aid program, he was welcomed as a bearer of good omens. On the day of his arrival, Mekong fishermen netted a 5-ft., 200-lb. catfish -a rare catch and the first of the year. It was served-cooked-at a welcoming banquet...
Died. David losifovich Zaslavsky, 85, Pravda's most poisonous penman since 1928, who called Churchill "a broken lance bearer," Truman "a cold-war Napoleon," Hammarskjold "a hangman and murderer," but saved his strongest venom for Boris Pasternak, sneering that he was "an extraneous smudge" and leading the chorus that forced the author of Doctor Zhivago to refuse the 1958 Nobel Prize; in Moscow...
...once, once we may remember, we had an honest standard-bearer. Once idealism had a living symbol. She has bared her bosom to the wind. Our ugly world can have little claim...