Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feisty, folksy accountant, City Controller Abraham David Beame, 59. In the general election he will face the strongest Republican candidate for mayor in a generation: Manhattan Congressman' John Vliet Lindsay, 43, a Yale-educated lawyer with a liberal voting record and impressive support in a "silk stocking" Manhattan district in which registered Republicans are in the minority...
...Lake. The final disaster came this month, when three drunken Simbas began brawling in Cairo's residential Zamalek district. Before the battle ended, two of them had been shot dead. The surviving Simba resisted arrest on the grounds that "I am a general." That was too much for even Nasser, whose security police had been urging him for months to get rid of the troublesome Congolese. He ordered remaining Simbas rounded up, then packed them aboard a government airliner and shipped them out of Egypt. When last seen, they were headed for Kigoma, the Tanzanian railhead on Lake Tanganyika...
Charles A. Wyzanski '27, Federal District Judge; President of the Board of Overseers...
Brushing past Kamisar at the end of the session, Murphy returned in kind, grunted only: "That was awful." Chief Justice Warren diplomatically praised the discussion as "splendid, fair and searching." Pointing out that he had been a law-enforcement officer himself (chief deputy district attorney of Alameda County, Calif., for two years and California's attorney general for four years) Warren said that he had abundant sympathy for the problems of the police...
...George Murphy danced on as a U.S. Senator. Then Good Guy Ronald Reagan strolled in from stage right to thrill his audience with the idea he might run for Governor of California against Pat Brown. Now, with Jimmy Roosevelt giving up his congressional seat from Los Angeles' 26th District to represent the U.S. on the United Nations Economic and Social Council, liberal Showman Steve Allen, 46, says he too might want to get in on the act by trying out for Roosevelt's part. Trouble with the Congress bit, says Steve, is that it's not liberal...