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...known where and how to tolerate corruption within his realm. The son of a sheet-metal worker, Daley grew up in the gritty district of Bridgeport, where he continues to live in a modest bungalow. After starting out as a secretary to the city council at 25, Daley scrambled upward through the party ranks. Hence his understanding of Chicago's muscles and nerves is deeply intuitive. But it is growing archaic, as the mayor's lines to the Negro community atrophy and he continues to rule in the personalistic style of a benevolent Irish despot of the wards...
...Ojukwu's military resistance is a small group of white mercenaries commanded by Colonel Rolf Steiner, a 38-year-old former Foreign Legion sergeant who fought in Indo-China and Algeria. His ability to make the most of Biafra's minimal military resources has moved him steadily upward in rank and power since he signed on last December. When news of the federal onslaught reached Ojukwu, he hurried to Steiner's headquarters in an abandoned nunnery in Owerri...
Senate foes want to transfer the agency's most lauded program, Head Start, to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW, which opposes such precipitous transfers, may also get VISTA, the Community Action Program's Upward Bound, and neighborhood health centers. Legal services may go to the Justice Department, which does not want them. The Senate also may give the Job Corps to the Labor Department...
...Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Work-Study Program, Adult Basic Education, Rural Loan Program, Migrant Worker Assistance, Employment and Investment Incentives, Work Experience Program, Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) and the Community Action Program, which set up Head Start, Upward Bound, Legal Services and Health Service Centers...
...than that of Pericles, for it includes all the Greek flowering that followed him; richer than Leonardo's, for it includes him and the Italian Renaissance; richer than Voltaire's, for it embraces all the French Enlightenment." Furthermore, they foresee no limits to man's long upward journey. "If progress is real despite our whining," they conclude, "it is not because we are born any healthier, better or wiser than infants were in the past, but because we were born to a richer heritage, born on a higher level of that pedestal which the accumulation of knowledge...