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...ended up absorbing some of the criticism other politicians should have gotten. The main drawback, in fact, of the black-blue-collar-white dream coalition is that it will always face a hostile establishment. The only other politician in New Orleans whose constituency roughly approaches Garrison's, a councilman named Eddie Sapir, is another favorite target of the daily New Orleans press...
...outdoor illumination will crimp the plans of many communities and businesses to put up dazzling Christmas displays. Even before the President's call for a blackout, Detroit Mayor Roman S. Gribbs had ordered a "dimout" of Christmas lighting, and has been severely criticized for it. Groused Councilman David Eberhard: "This town needs some joy. If we turn off the color, the sparkle, the life, then we're a dead city." To conserve electricity, the small town of Jefferson, Iowa, stilled the carillon bells that pealed hymns and patriotic music...
...band hit the final chords to "For the Good Times" and won the applause of Vellucci's "little people" who were now finishing their pizzas, cakes and sausages and waiting for the arrival of the councilman...
Torbert MacDonald '69 asks voters to ask the question "Paranoid or Pragmatist?" in assessing him as a potential city councilman. The question is well put. The electorate's decision to vote for him will depend on which one of those two ways they...
...Widener faced four liberal and conservative councilors, and found it hard to push legislation through. Moreover, the Coalition itself was split on particular issues. Its black members were unsympathetic to its feminists. "If this doesn't benefit the black community, I'm not voting for it," one black councilman explained, opposing the funding of a women's health center. In a 1973 election for four new councilors--which the conservative Berkeley Gazette described as "the last effort of rational, reasonable people"--Mayor Widener endorsed not his ex-partners in the April Coalition but a slate of liberal Democratic types...