Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavily Democratic because the G.O.P. gubernatorial candidate seemed more interested in getting a Marxist history professor fired than in facing up to pressing statewide problems. Long-docile Democrats in Philadelphia chopped a tentacle off the "Octopus of Walnut Street," as their tired machine is unlovingly known, by electing a District Attorney on the Republican ticket. A Democrat surprised everybody by getting himself elected mayor of Scranton, Pa., and Republicans did the same in Binghamton, N.Y., Waterbury and New Britain, Conn., and Akron, Ohio...
...been a superb trial attorney, so good that he had received glowing praise from Justice Felix Frankfurter for his presentation of a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. He had proved himself to be one of New York's alltime champion vote getters in his 17th Congressional District. He was one of the toughest, go-it-alone independents in Congress, a top House expert on civil rights legislation-and a thorn in the side of his own party regulars...
Though Beame lost, both of his ticket partners came through. Popular Queens District Attorney Frank O'Connor, 55, who is aiming to run for Governor next year, was elected city council president. And Mario A. Procaccino, 53, Italian-born son of a shoemaker, was elected controller...
...youths were arrest last weekend in connection with the Weeks Bridge stabbing Oct. 27, and Metropolitan District Commission detectives announced that they expect three more arrests soon...
...change had also taken place inside the ring. In the past, the only people who could compete were those who had grown up to the sound of the huntsman's bugle. No longer. Among the children in the show were the daughters of a Vermont district commissioner and a Pennsylvania farmer...