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...curious political journey. He won national attention four years ago as the author of the report that blamed "police riots" for a share of the disorders surrounding the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Then the tall, tanned lawyer, now 50, quit his $100,000-a-year job at Montgomery Ward vowing to overturn both the G.O.P. organization downstate and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic machine in Cook County. After he had hiked in denims 1,197 miles across Illinois, talking up his giant-killer theme, Walker edged out Daley's candidate in the primaries. But once...
...success, AMC remains something of a protected ward in the auto industry. Leaders of other companies regard it as a shield, however small, against Government anti-trust action. Critics of the auto industry, who are eager to promote such action, charge that the big companies give AMC little competition for its lucrative contracts for Government vehicles (postal and military Jeeps, military trucks). AMC has been allowed on a temporary basis by the Justice Department to consult with GM on anti-pollution research as a means of saving money. Is the company merely having a couple of good years...
Channel 5's miscalculation was as close as Hicks and her Irish pols got to victory. Although the final tally showed Hicks a loser by only 2000 votes, the congresswoman suffered devastating defeats in the black wards, and secured only a modest 2500-vote margin in Ward 7--her home precinct...
...some Western Europeans. Shipbuilders in Europe have sent a plea for easy-term loans and other subsidies to the Common Market Council of Ministers, which will consider their request this week or next. The aid is needed, shipbuilders say, mostly to protect them against Japanese rivals, but also to ward off a competitive threat from what they call the "heavily subsidized" U.S. industry. American shipbuilders will get $425 million in Government help during fiscal 1973 to build liquefied natural-gas carriers and other modern ships. This surely must be the first time since World War II that the high-cost...
...crowd at the Statler Hilton ballroom broke into cheers and dancing at 10:15 p.m. when returns from the South End's ward 4 pushed Moakley ailed for the first time. The lower class ethnic and racially mixed neighborhood handed Moakley all but one of its precincts...