Word: rangell
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...third primary verdict may have halted a long and stormy political career. Adam Clayton Powell, already out of grace with his House colleagues, was finally defeated by the voters of Harlem after 24 years in Congress. By a mere 150-vote margin, they nominated instead Charles Rangel, a black state assemblyman (see box, opposite...
...defeated Adam Clayton Powell by a slim margin in a Democratic congressional primary last week has made a lifetime habit of doing the difficult and making it look easy. Charles Bernard Rangel, a 40-year-old black state assemblyman, unseated King Adam gently, avoiding harsh frontal attacks, building productive political alliances, and working, working, working. An ebullient native of the Harlem district that he will represent-unless Powell makes good a threat to run as an independent and succeeds-Rangel is a high school dropout who eventually earned a law degree. When he quit school in 1948, he joined...
...Memphis, after being ordered by his teacher to swallow what he was chewing, Rangel Burks, 7, obliged, was taken to the hospital with a pencil stub in his stomach...