Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lawrence S. DiCara '71, soon to take office as Boston's youngest City Councilman, has been in Washington this month reinforcing his contacts with the Massachusetts congressional delegation...
...Pack-Johnny Carson, Ted Kennedy and John Lindsay are out of it, so is Nelson Rockefeller, though his brothers David and Laurence are in. Some husbands are in while their wives are not (Cat Lord Snowdon and Non-Feline Princess Margaret), and vice versa (rich and social Manhattan Councilman Carter Burden, out, and his pretty wife Amanda, in). Among the 67 on the list -which includes five dress designers and three interior decorators-Richard M. Nixon is nowhere to be found, but No. 67 is Chou Enlai...
...with equal opportunities in education. No one?save possibly school-bus manufacturers?is in favor of "busing for the sake of busing," the chimera that Richard Nixon belabors. Blacks, after all, have as strong a sense of neighborhood schools as whites do. But as Nicholas Hood, a black city councilman in Detroit, puts it: "It's pragmatic. We don't have any desire to be close to white people just for the sake of being close to white people. We want the same thing everyone else wants so we can have the same opportunities for our kids to learn...
John Day, Hicks' brother and campaign manager, said that Hicks' main emphasis in the televised debate next Monday would be the "fiscal irresponsibility" of the four years of White's administration and also expressed his belief that Mrs. Hicks could win by "getting most of Councilman Timilty's votes...
White won nine wards as compared with only one ward in 1967. He did surprisingly well in Italian-American East Boston and also in Roxbury where--despite the campaign of Black Councilman Atkins--he captured 40 per cent of the black vote. The elderly, who constitute 25 per cent of the Boston electorate, also supported him heavily...