Word: aldermanic
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...sick society before it can presume to treat others. What, then, do the New Leftists prescribe for the U.S.? They know what they do not want, but not necessarily what they want. Typical is a statement by Clark Kissinger, 26, a former S.D.S. national secretary who ran for alderman in Chicago (and won 864 votes out of 18,-970): "You can imagine the system as a table. Lyndon Johnson sits at the head of the table, labor has a place at the table, industry has a place, the building industry, the .grape growers, the State Street merchants-they all have...
...keeping with his practice since he was first elected to public office as a Chicago alderman 26 years ago, Illinois' Democratic Senator Paul H. Douglas, 74, defeated for re-election by Republican Charles Percy, ended the year with an accounting of his income and financial holdings. Taxes, campaign expenses and other costs of maintaining office left only some $7,000 of his total $32,385 Senate salary-plus-allowance to live on, Douglas declared, and it would have been "very difficult" to remain in public life but for the $8,285 he earned from royalties, articles and lecture fees...
Serving with Cox on the panel are David M. Shoup, former commandant of the Marine Corps, Thomas Vail, publisher and editor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Ralph Metcalfe, Chicago alderman and former Olympic medal winner. The panel's chairman is Theodore W. Kheel, who was the mediator in the recent New York newspaper strike. the NCAA...
...over the far left in November's crucial election. Much of Frei's popularity stemmed from the infectious zeal of his late sister Irene, who died in an auto accident five weeks before the election. An ardent campaigner and organizer for the Christian Democrats, Irene won an alderman's seat in Santiago in 1963, picking up the biggest majority of any candidate...
...ballot boxes in Chile) gave him almost 63% of their vote. Frei's own sister Irene, 46, was one of the country's most popular political figures until her death in an auto accident five weeks ago. In Santiago municipal elections last year, she herself won an alderman's seat with the biggest majority of any candidate. Some 40,000 women turned out for her funeral, and her tragic death just before the presidential elections almost certainly led to a sympathy vote...