Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...program such as the one he started is desperately .needed. It is my hope that civic organizations everywhere will take an interest in helping people in places like Due Pho. They can use all the help they can get. JAMES V. KIMSEY Captain, U.S.A. Senior Adviser Due Pho District Viet...
Both candidates were intelligent, articulate and gentlemanly to the end. And, regardless of party labels, their political views were almost indistinguishable-so much so that the perplexed voters of Manhattan's liberal, sophisticated 17th Congressional District could hardly make up their minds. When the votes were counted last week, Republican Theodore Roosevelt Kupferman won over Democrat Orin Lehman by only 995 votes, 1% of the 95,000 cast...
...close an election in such a stubbornly independent district could hardly be hailed as a trend setter for November. Republicans nonetheless could take cheer in the retention of Mayor John Vliet Lindsay's old seat at the nerve center of the nation's largest city. Lindsay's buoyant political stock was boosted still higher by the victory of a candidate who billed himself as "a man like Lindsay" and promised to continue in the cherished Lindsay tradition of "independence and constructive opposition...
...character who loses all his marbles but one is Arthur Brown, a shambling, boneless, orange-haired simpleton who works for 50 years as a grocer's boy in Sarsaparilla (a coyly satirical name for the Sydney district of Parramatta). Arthur is seen by his neighbors at the end of Terminus Road as a "dill," a "no-hoper," a "loopy," a "nut," a "mophret" (hermaphrodite), and "a dirty old man." The reader sympathizes with these brisk Aussie judgments; Arthur is indeed hard to follow as he mumbles about the place goggling at the dreary scenery or polishing that glass marble...
Acting City Labor Commissioner James McFadden is checking into the question and his report could trigger action by either the Brooklyn or Queens District Attorney...