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...Congressman, and pastor of its huge, 10,000-member Abyssinian Baptist Church, Adam Clayton Powell, was in Switzerland and Washington, but not Harlem. "There's one good thing about Adam Clayton Powell," says one Negro. "He seems to make the Caucasians very angry." Harlem's only city councilman, J. Raymond Jones, was fresh back from his Virgin Islands retreat, but he saw no reason to comment on the situation...
...Rutherglen, outside Glasgow, Laborite J. Gregor Mackenzie, 36, a Glasgow city councilman, won over Iain Sproat, 25, a journalist of whom the New Statesman wrote: "If he was any further to the Right, he would be in the North...
...field a good two hours' walk from his mud-walled house. He took women where he found them, ran his home with paternalistic authoritarianism. But he commanded enough local respect to become a political figure of sorts, first as a leader of his barrio, later as a town councilman, eventually as a judge...
...Roughly 75% of Alaska's industrial output was crippled. Three thousand people no longer had jobs to go to. Home owners and small businessmen with mortgages were teetering on financial ruin. Banks, which hold about $300 million in deposits, feared a run of serious proportions. Said Anchorage City Councilman Sewell Faulkner: "I'd hate to think how many hundreds of people in Anchorage are bankrupt right now." In Seward, where 90% of the economy simply crumbled, City Manager William Harrison told newsmen: "Fellows, we're in a hell of a mess." He tried to read a news...
...office. Frank Lausche, a Democrat, rose from Cleveland mayor to Ohio Governor to U.S. Senator on Press support. If the Press doesn't like a politician, the whole city soon finds out. Before an election last November, the Press's rundown of candidates identified one aspiring city councilman as "an admitted tax cheat," another as "Front man for a slum landlord." Monuments to the Press's love for the city dot the landscape: a handsome lakefront development, an expanded public hall, new low-cost apartment houses built over slums, a new community college. But Seltzer...