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...election battle, and witnessed an extraordinary victory speech. Reports Cate: "Wan and misty-eyed, Percy could not control the trembling of his hands as he read his statement. The tough race had humbled a normally proud man." After Philadelphians defeated a proposal that would have allowed Mayor Frank Rizzo to seek a third term, New York Correspondent Robert Parker visited the headquarters of the victors and watched "snake dances with revelers flashing signs, DING DONG, THE WITCH IS DEAD." At Governor Jerry Brown's re-election party in Los Angeles, Correspondent Joe Kane observed while celebrants, dressed in costumes...
...Quaker Wishbone (nearly 400 yards on the day) tore up the Astroturf the way Secretariat tears up dirt, and before you could say Frank Rizzo, Penn had a two-touchdown lead after its first two possessions...
...refused to add an equal rights amendment to their state constitution. A California proposal to ban smoking in all public places failed, as did a Missouri attempt to institute a right-to-work law. And the voters of Philadelphia refused to reform their city charter to allow Mayor Frank Rizzo to seek an unprecedented third term in office...
...Replies Rizzo: "When they throw garbage like that racist bull shit on me -that's not me. That upsets me. I like all people. I put my life on the line for all people." It is the blacks, he charges, who first introduced race as an issue in the charter fight. Rizzo is concentrating his campaign on the working-class sections that have solidly supported him in the past. At Palumbo's Cafe in South Philadelphia, he told a group of a hundred or so supporters: "In Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh, Newark, there is no limit on mayors...
...beat me with this racist bull shit issue. But they can't. They tried to do it in '71. They tried in '75, I was elected both times." Still, the city's black voters have grown to 34% of the total electorate, and even Rizzo realizes that he faces an uphill battle. The most recent Gallup poll has him trailing nearly 2 to 1. But the mayor is confident. Said he: "We're going to win by 50,000. Philadelphia wouldn't be the same without Frank Rizzo...