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...major efforts going towards patronage jobs and making Chicago the first "designer" city all its trappings personalized with her name tag. There was Mayor Byrne's Clean Up Green Up effort to clean up the city, a Mayor Byrne's Taste of Chicago, a Mayor Byrne's Chicago Fest, and to top it all off, Mayor Byrne's Kool Jazz Fest, for which she disputed naming rights with the promoters of the national tour...
Only when the Rev. Jackson and a group of other Blacks organized a boycott of Chicago Fest--protesting Byrne's appointment of two whites to the Board of the Chicago Housing Authority, which controls predominantly Black housing projects--did the partying stop. That was just the beginning of the Black movement that booted Byrne out of the primary last month...
During warmups it seemed the Elis were psyched more for a foul-fest rather than a basketball game as they demonstrated some exercises reminiscent of fall Saturdays in Harvard Stadium. Unfortunately for the Crimson the Bulldogs came out psyched enough to take control of the game right from the start...
...County in Florida tried to draw tourists in June, an off month, by organizing an arts festival with $450,000 in support from American Express. Only a fourth of the anticipated crowd showed up. Such misadventures have not deterred the city of Chicago. Many companies back its summer Chicago Fest. Annual cost: about $6 million, almost $700,000 of it from Coke, Pepsi, RC Cola, Budweiser and Miller, among others...
...appearances, it was an oldtime Democratic love fest. The party faithful, breaking with recent practice, were actually faithful: they did not split up into bitter factions or call one another names. Presidential hopefuls preened, smiled and whispered sweet nothings into delegates' ears. To top it all off, there was a rousing speech by a Kennedy. "The dawn is near, our hearts are bright," intoned Senator Ted of Massachusetts. "Our cause is right, and our day is coming again...