Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wall-sized chart. Unlike Mrs. Hicks' picnic-like celebration, where there was plenty of liquor and no charts, White's headquarters were marked by an exuberant but businesslike atmosphere. Returns from each precinct were carefully tabulated; charts showing the relative strength of each candidate in each important city district were being set-up and studied. There was no orchestra; there were no bars, no ham sandwiches, no sweet gerkin pickles, no chocolate cake for White's campaign workers--lawyers, teachers, students, high state officials...
...scion of an old, well-established Boston political family, White is no parochial Bostonian. He combines an ability to do business with district ward-heelers and a keen, compassionate sense of the city's racial problems. There is no doubt that the progress of the New Boston--with infusions of new business and federal aid--will continue under White's shrewd leadership...
...city's racial problems grow more heated, as the power of the Central Business District bankers and businessmen grows greater, and as the city's people grow more confused by the demands placed on them by society and the Commonwealth, the need for a sensitive, knowledgeable, patient Mayor increases. Only one candidate has these qualities and the confidence of the city's district leaders--Kevin H. White. turning film, but there has not been the kind of reaction that Watkins hoped for. Nor will there be. And this, as much as the torn limbs of the dead and the dead...
...President's announcement of a December White House wedding had caught even Press Secretary Liz Carpenter off guard. But a month ago Robb had told his mother and his father, who is the American Airlines' district sales manager in Milwaukee, that he and Lynda Bird were serious. A dedicated career officer, Robb graduated straight into the Marines in 1961 from the University of Wisconsin, where he garnered a degree in business administration. He first emerged from the pack of personable young officers assigned to White House social duties when he was called to be a fourth at bridge...
...children who were not wanted in the first place. "Much social work in this area," she said, "is picking up the pieces instead of going to the roots of the matter-that is, granting the mother the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy." Judge Orman Ketcham of the District of Columbia Juvenile Court reported that "most of the juveniles who come before me were unwanted children...