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Mike Wallace, '60 Minutes' interviewer, dies
NEW YORK — Mike Wallace didn't interview people. He interrogated them. He cross-examined them. Sometimes he eviscerated them. His reputation was so fearsome that it was often said that the scariest words in the English language were "Mike Wallace...
Tags: Jack Kevorkian, Television Industry, Entertainment, Roger Clemens, Jackie Gleason
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Review: "Power to the People" edited by Geoff Kaplan
One of Chicago's treasures is the microfilm archive of alternative newspapers housed in Harold Washington Library. I'm particularly fond of exploring the Seed, the Chicago periodical that helped Mayor Richard J. Daley's less loyal subjects prepare for the...
Tags: Harold Washington Library Center, Newspaper and Magazine, Book, Vietnam War (1955-1975), University of Chicago
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Shifting party fortunes is nothing new
Is the Republican Party toast? You would think so, listening to the political analysts and strategists, including those who prepared a harshly critical self-appraisal for the Republican National Committee. The contention that the GOP should be changed to...
Tags: Republican Party, Parties and Movements, Ronald Reagan, Walter Mondale, Elections
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Cop: "Every night was a battle and a half"
Retired Chicago Police Lt. Bob Angone had been a cop just 31/2 years by August 1968. He was a veteran of the violence surrounding Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s open housing campaign in 1966 and the riots after King's assassination in April. But neither...Tags: Fatigue, Martin Luther King Jr., Politics, Elections, Democratic National Conventions
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'Hog butcher for the world'
![The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of glory and gore.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/68200893-18153110-187105.JPG "The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world.\" That came a year earlier, when \"hog alley\" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of glory and gore.")
The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of...Tags: Thomas Pynchon, Livestock Farming, Steaks, Union (Tolland, Connecticut), Bertolt Brecht
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Ed Holstein at his finest
Change of SubjectFrom this summer's concert at FitzGerald's in honor of Earl Pionke's -- the Earl of Old Town: Video description: One of the evening's major hits was Eddie Holstein, modestly self-proclaimed 1970s Folk Legend. Eddie teaches at Chicago's Old Town School....... -
George McGovern dies at 90; liberal standard-bearer against Nixon in '72
George S. McGovern, an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in a thundering landslide, has died. He was 90. McGovern died Sunday morning while...Tags: John F. Kennedy, White House, Injuries and Wounds, Walter Mondale, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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175 Chicago protesters arrested after being told to leave Grant Park
Tribune reporterChicago police arrested about 175 Occupy Chicago protestors in Congress Plaza just after 1 a.m. Sunday, about 90 minutes after police issued their first warning that the group was violating municipal code. Police completed the last arrests and cleared...Tags: Chicago Transit Authority, Egyptian Revolution (2011-12), Activism, Rahm Emanuel, Police Arrests
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Review: 'Cronkite' by Douglas Brinkley is occasionally critical
-------------------- Cronkite Douglas Brinkley Harper: 820 pp., $34.99 -------------------- Walter Cronkite was not inclined to introspection, and historian Douglas Brinkley emulates his subject in this thorough biography of the news broadcaster who in...
Tags: Entertainment, Television Industry, Biography (genre), Bill Moyers, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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'Bad Moon Rising' exhibit
Pits and pieces from the local sports scene. Library to display exhibition of baseball memorabilia: The Baseball Reliquary presents "Bad Moon Rising: Baseball and the Summer of '68," an exhibition chronicling the extraordinary baseball season of 1968,...Tags: Sports, Arts and Culture, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Bob Gibson, Detroit Tigers
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Baseball and unrest explored in exhibition at library
Terry Cannon grew up in Detroit rooting for his hometown Tigers. Cannon is the executive director of the Baseball Reliquary, a Pasadena-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of...
Tags: Sports, Super Bowl, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Arts and Culture, Bob Gibson
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Charles Osborne Fisher
Charles Osborne Fisher, a World War II veteran and prominent Carroll County attorney whose legal career spanned more than six decades, died Friday at his Westminster home from complications of a broken hip.
He was 95.
"Charles was a real gentleman and...Tags: Career and Workplace, Arts and Culture, Health, Government, Hospitals and Clinics
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