Word: councilmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Orioles, an Ypsilanti, Mich., Little League baseball team, she beat out 15 boys and qualified for a starting position. Not long afterward, Little League headquarters in Williamsport, Pa., cited its rule barring girls from league teams and threatened to withdraw the Orioles' charter. Ypsilanti's city councilmen issued a counterthreat...
...reaction in the U.S. was similarly subdued. In Wayne, Mich., Mayor Patrick Norton interrupted a debate of the city council to ask if the councilmen would like to hear President Nixon's speech on the settlement. They preferred to continue discussing a proposed apartment building for senior citizens. "I thought it all very strange," said the mayor. "We waited all these years for the war to be over, and then we were too busy to hear the announcement...
...played at the event. Thereupon the Garden switchboard lit up like a scoreboard. After receiving "irate calls from all over the country," the meet officials set a new indoor record for backpedaling. They would be "delighted," they claimed, "to continue the custom" of anthem playing. Twenty New York councilmen suddenly put on their best red-white-and-blue suits and introduced a probably unconstitutional bill making it unlawful to "commence any sporting event...without first playing the national anthem...
...this polarized community. In 1967, and again in 1969, Stokes was elected mayor in close two-man races by carrying a solid 95 per cent of the black vote as well as 18 per cent of the white vote. But despite the fact that three-fourths of the City Councilmen were Democrats, most of them were white who consistently voted against the Mayor...
...YOUNG. The youth vote surfaced significantly in areas where local issues aroused it; elsewhere it was submerged, an unpredictable factor going into 1972. In East Lansing, Mich., two city councilmen were elected by appealing to the newly enfranchised youngsters; both campaigned on issues popular at Michigan State University, such as building more housing and recreational 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...