Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Locher, was turned out by Carl Stokes, first Negro to assume command of a major American city. As Lausche's reign crumpled last week, a new dynasty was dawning about the personable Stokes. His older brother Louis, 43, became the Democratic congressional nominee in Cleveland's 21st District by topping a 14-man field, with 28,680 votes to his nearest rival's 15,110. Lou Stokes, who will face Negro Republican Charles P. Lucas in the fall, adopted the campaign slogan: "Another Stokes for the Same Folks...
...Even in Mississippi's Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest census eight out of every ten families live below the poverty line, 37% of the households own washing machines, 48% own cars, and 52% own television sets. In the Los Angeles district of Watts, California's most notorious Slough of Despond, the orderly rows of one-story, stucco houses reflect the sun in gay pastels, and only the weed-grown gaps between stores along the wide main streets?"instant parking lots"?hint at the volcanic mob fury that three years...
Saigon itself was hit hard only in certain areas, such as the Chinese district of Cholon. Though scattered shells fell throughout the capital, life in downtown Saigon was business as usual after the first alarms: streets were filled with noisy scooters, pedicabs and cars; stores stayed open; sidewalk vendors hawked their trinkets. Despite the bombing of two small power plants, the city's electricity and water supplies flowed normally. Unlike Tet, there was little city-wide fear that the Communists might overrun the capital...
...Goldwater was uncowed, and last week he started to make his case in a federal district court in New York City. What had particularly galled him was an article by Publisher Ginzburg.* In it, Ginzburg wondered whether it was "possible that Goldwater's nervous breakdowns were provoked by his intense anxiety about his manhood." Goldwater testified that he had "never had any doubts about it." Calm and comfortable in the witness chair, he declared flatly that he had not had a nervous breakdown either. In fact, he said, "I have never talked to a psychiatrist in my life...
...garment industry from 1935 to 1940, and from 1947 until his death; of a heart attack; in Biarritz, France. Though Rosenblatt represented such contestants as Stavros Niarchos and Alfred Vanderbilt in divorce suits, family peace was his main concern-and it was nowhere more evident than in the garment district, where his quiet good sense settled many strikes and staved off many others. Spain, where he maintained a home was his second country; in 1966, he and his wife were honored with the Order of Isabel la Católica for their efforts at strengthening U.S.-Spanish relations...