Word: assemblyman
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...facilities for the campus area (see story, page 18). In Newcomerstown, Ohio, 19-year-old Ronald J. Hooker won election as mayor on a law-and-order platform: he vowed to stop motorists from roaring through quiet village streets. The youth vote contributed to the election of Republican State Assemblyman Pete Wilson, 38, as mayor of San Diego. An advance man for Richard Nixon in the 1962 California gubernatorial campaign, Wilson won youthful support by putting a $300 ceiling on contributions from real estate developers and by turning down all billboard advertising in the campaign. In Jersey City, 55 years...
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...without a party." Lindsay was beaten in the Republican primary for mayor and won the election only because he had significant Democratic support. Yet the Democrats did not warm to a man who tends to be abrasive in personal encounters. Says Manhattan Assemblyman Franz Leichter, a Democrat: "Lindsay does not control one legislator, and he influences few others. This must be the first time in the history of the state that a mayor has had so little power in Albany...
...candidates were Willie S. Brow Jr., California state assemblyman; Angela Davis, the radical scholar awaiting trial on murder charges; Ailees Hernandez, a former member of the U.S. Equal Opportunities Commission; the Rev. Andrew Young of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Augustinho Neta and Amilear Gabral, leaders of liberation movements in Angola and Portuguese Guinea, respectively...
...York State Assemblyman George Michaels, 59, is a tall...