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...closing victory was based on a strategic assumption that by election day he could evenly split his opponents' white support, take 75% or better of the black vote and between 8% and 14% of the white vote. He did better than his blueprint. An Associated Press-WMAQ-TV exit poll showed that Byrne and Daley divided the white support 47% to 46%, and that Washington captured 84% of the black vote, though only 6% of the white. Of the 1.2 million votes cast, Washington received 36.3%, Byrne 33.5%, and Daley 29.8%. "When you divide the numbers three ways," said...
Colonel Blake's sad departure, Trapper's hasty exit and Radar's return to Otumwa, Iowa prompted mourning and drunken reflection from avid viewers nationwide. M*A*S*H's final episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode, not surprisingly, became a national phenomenon, and we join the rest of the nation and the host of last-episode partiers in saying farewell...
...sent to labor camps. In the Roman Catholic republic of Lithuania, where clergy arrests might rouse nationalist feelings, three priests have been killed since October 1980 under suspicious circumstances; one was apparently pushed into the path of a speeding truck. Thousands of Soviet Jews who have been refused exit visas to Israel are also a target of KGB persecution...
When the first body appears, the event is almost disappointing, since so many other interesting plots have been set in motion. Symons anticipates this problem and shows how everything must converge in the murder. Then he tops himself with a second, this one occurring within the time-honored no-exit confines of a British country house. When the killer is unmasked, Symons still has enough ingenuity in reserve to put some reverse English on the disposition of the discovery...
...every bridge and overpass along the route, at every entrance and exit ramp, in rest areas and upon medians people were standing. Among the mourners were his players, present and past, including Joe Namath, Richard Todd, Lee Roy Jordan, John David Crow; and his coaching colleagues, like Bud Wilkinson, Darrell Royal, Eddie Robinson, Woody Hayes. "When I heard, it was like March 31, 1931," said Hayes, 69, the historian. "I was on the practice field. Someone came over to me and said, 'Rockne is dead.' Rockne was the great coach of his era; this man is the great...