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...city's fabled old gambling and vice rings and won at least 50 civic awards for its efficient ways. With that kind of record, Charter Government should have waltzed to re-election this year. Instead, Phoenix's Mayor Samuel Mardian Jr. and his incumbent city councilmen found themselves in a bitter fight over an improbable, implausible issue. The charge: that Charter Government's candidates-as well as Barry Goldwater-were soft on Communism...
Last week Phoenix and Charter Government breathed easier. Carrying his six councilmen with him, Mayor Mardian defeated Hanner 32,880 to 13,019. But the battle was not necessarily over. Lacking money and experienced candidates, the Stay American Committee had done surprisingly well with its odd charges against responsible conservatives. "We've just begun to fight," said Kay Westermann, a housewife and a founder of the committee. "We ain't beat...
...Center for an office building on stilts has become history (at least until the next legislative session), but Harvard's role in the controversy cannot be easily forgotten. Before Gov. Volpe, presumably under pressure, ended the battle by vetoing the bill, the University had pitted itself against five City Councilmen and much of Cambridge, worsening public relations which had only just begun to improve...
Charles P. Whitlock, Harvard's Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, has made a promising start in the field of public relations; indeed many City Councilmen have been impressed with the University's attitude towards the community since Whitlock assumed his post three years ago. This is a start, but one man cannot do the job alone...
Wagner first exercised his new political muscle last week in the scrap over a replacement for Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack. De Sapio seemed to have that election in his pocket. But when Wagner began to remind reluctant councilmen of the patronage at his command, he had surprisingly little trouble. Wagner's choice, Judge Edward Richard Dudley, onetime Ambassador to Liberia (the U.S.'s first Negro ambassador), won the showdown vote in the council...