Word: addonizio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fixed Bayonets. In response to an appeal from Newark Mayor Hugh Addonizio, Governor Hughes called up 2,600 National Guardsmen. Soon Jeeps, trucks and a clanking eleven-ton armored personnel carrier mounting machine guns roared into the ghetto. When several police were pinned down by Negro sniper fire, the APC rumbled up and began blazing away with its .30-cal. guns; unknown to the mob, they were loaded with blanks. The police got away. Simultaneously, Guardsmen and police patrols coursed through the streets-often behind fixed bayonets-picking up every Negro in reach. Black-Power Playwright LeRoi Jones...
Under Mayor Addonizio, 53, a bulky, balding liberal Democrat who once quarterbacked for Fordham behind the "Seven Blocks of Granite" and served as an infantry officer from Algiers to the Bulge, Newark until recently was considered a city in control of its problems. Addonizio, who served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before his election as mayor in 1962 -largely on the strength of Negro and Italian votes-outlined an ambitious urban-renewal program. Newark today spends $277 per capita on repairing urban blight-the highest annual figure for the nation's 50 biggest cities. Newark officials...
Shining amidst the general gloom, the Crimson epee team took its first Ivy match of the year, 5-4. Junior Harry Jergesen swept three bouts, including a 5-4 decision over fellow all-Ivy Leaguer Don Sieja. Brian Keidan downed Cornell sophomore Vic Addonizio, 5-2, and Allen Lewis...
...Your account of President Johnson's visit to Newark [Oct. 14] implies that his visit was poorly received, and says that "even Newark's Democratic Mayor Hugh Addonizio had left the scene before the presidential motorcade pulled away, L.B.J. had badly mispronounced his name." In fact, the President's reception amazed all except those of us proud to be among his staunchest supporters. Estimates of the crowd ranged from the G.O.P.'s 30,000 to the police's 50,000 and the Democrats' 70,000. At the end of his talk, Johnson was mobbed...
...HUGH J. ADDONIZIO Newark...