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Most cities saddled with an ineffectual mayor and aldermen can vote them out of office. But voters in the District of Columbia, whose city council is the United States Congress and whose mayor the President, have no such easy recourse. The barbed problem of segregation illustrates their powerless position; the citizens can do nothing but hope that their preoccupied administrators will eventually offer a solution...
...City Manager John B. Atkinson developed a halo during his decade in office, and he deserved it. Where once aldermen grew fat from their trucking contracts with Cambridge, city officials from kickbacks, and politicians in general from the hopeless tangle of Cambridge finance, Atkinson reduced city administration to a degree of orderliness and efficiency which any modern corporation would be proud to claim...
...Winter Comes. In Brentwood, Mo., on a day when the heat stood at a record 100.8°, the board of aldermen received notice of the delivery of the city's brand-new snowplow...
...corridors of the Palais de Chaillot, United Nations diplomats grabbed lapels and murmured propositions like a band of Chicago wardheelers choosing up a slate of aldermen. The lobbying went on outside the U.N. as well-at cocktail parties, convivial soirees and special opera performances, where diplomats who fought each other by day exchanged chitchat with each other's wives at night. The big plums were three small-power Security Council seats which become vacant at year's end. Everybody quickly settled on two of them-Chile to succeed Ecuador in one of the seats traditionally reserved for Latin...
...every building--could not cope with the new heating demands. So, University officials opened negotiations in 1914 with the City of Cambridge for the use of surplus steam generated by the Boston Elevated power house, located where Eliot House now stands. On March 3, 1914 the Cambridge Board of Aldermen granted Harvard permission to construct a steam tunnel to Smith and Gore Halls and from there snake up Holyoke Street across Mt. Auburn and up Linden Street to connect with Widener. There were unpalatable strings attached, however, requiring that the City do all the constructional work at the University...