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...Governor and I agree on," said King. "None." A bulky Boston College graduate who played professional football (1948-51), King, 57, positioned himself politically as a rough, tough advocate of the fed-up common man. He has pushed a local version of Reaganomics, in 1979 signing a property-tax cap and, just last month, a 2% cut in state income taxes. He is an enthusiastic advocate of the death penalty and an opponent of government-funded abortion...
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...certainly trying. Mingling with 400 friends and neighbors who gathered on his Illinois farm for a beer-and-bratwurst fund-raising picnic, he wore a blue denim jacket and red Funk Seeds cap. In that down-home outfit, it was almost possible to forget that former Senator Adlai Stevenson III, 51, is a patrician intellectual and an unarousing public presence. Nonetheless, the crowd gave him a rousing sendoff, erupting with whoops and whistles when the local Democratic chairman asked, "Is Ad going to win?" Candidate Stevenson, meanwhile, just smiled, looking more embarrassed than flattered by the hoopla...
...clean bill of health so that the state can resell homes it bought from fleeing homeowners and begin rehabilitating the neighborhood. The day after the EPA issued its report, the agency allocated $7 million to build new water-treatment plants in the area and extend the clay "cap" that now partly covers the canal...
...Double-note crossovers and over-and-unders.' He called the bass drum 'the foot propeddler.' He'd show up at work some nights during the '50s wearing a tux and tails with a turtleneck shirt and an Army fatigue cap with a watchband on it. He'd wear white gloves and have a big plate of food like chicken or crayfish put on the piano. While the band warmed up he'd be right on stage, eating. When he was ready to play he'd take off his white gloves, which were...