Word: democratic
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Under Mayor Addonizio, 53, a bulky, balding liberal Democrat who once quarterbacked for Fordham behind the "Seven Blocks of Granite" and served as an infantry officer from Algiers to the Bulge, Newark until recently was considered a city in control of its problems. Addonizio, who served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives before his election as mayor in 1962 -largely on the strength of Negro and Italian votes-outlined an ambitious urban-renewal program. Newark today spends $277 per capita on repairing urban blight-the highest annual figure for the nation's 50 biggest cities. Newark officials...
...Frills. After Douglas' defeat last fall, Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire became the bill's chief sponsor. More flexible than his old friend and mentor, Proxmire facilitated passage by agreeing to exempt smaller transactions under the revolving-charge-account systems used by many department stores. The stores will still be able to state their "service charge" on unpaid balances as 1½% a month-instead of the pause-giving figure of 18% a year. Transactions in which the annual credit cost is less than $10 would be excluded, along with loans exceeding $25,000, and all first mortgages...
...often takes some probing to bring the anxieties up. In Texas, where Republican Senator John Tower and Democrat Ralph Yarborough were both touring, Houstonians seemed lore interested in the conditions of their drought-seared lawns than in the fate of the Middle East. In Amarillo, at the opposite end of the state, people were fretting over the closedown of a SAC base, not because the move involves any highfalutin' global implications but because it will cost the community $30 million a year in local income...
Lingering Hunger. The subcommittees are understandably perplexed about why, despite U.S. agricultural abundance and food-relief programs, some Americans still go hungry. It was the Senate group, chaired by Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph Clark, that visited the Mississippi Delta in April and reported "emergency" hunger conditions. The following month, in a survey commissioned by the Field Foundation, a team of physicians examined more than 600 Mississippi Negro children and found "obvious evidence of severe malnutrition." Two weeks ago, Freeman undertook his own "look, learn and listen" excursion to Mississippi and Alabama as part of a four-state tour to study rural...
...well known was Barton for his books and his ad copy that he was sometimes talked of as a presidential possibility. But after losing a 1940 New York senatorial race to Democrat James Mead, he returned to Madison Avenue to run his agency for another 20 years. Once, when someone criticized his profession, Barton replied in typical fashion-by coining a phrase. "If advertising has flaws," he replied, "so has marriage...