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...issue heavily touted by King Dick was ingloriously rejected at the polls. Since then, Daley's subjects have demonstrated repeatedly against city-hall domination of the local anti-poverty program and the administra tion's refusal to integrate schools more quickly. In last week's primary elec tions, Mayor Daley's rule faced a triple-threat challenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chicago: The Daley Triple | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

...Second reason -- that "more aggressive leadership" in needed to handle new projects for the City -- he similarly rejected. He said he had been intimately involved with the planned NASA elec- tronics laboratory in Kendall Square, and that he was adequately prepared to meet other items mentioned by the Council: the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, the Wellington-Harrington urban renewal project in East Cambridge, and the proposed Inner Belt highway...

Author: By Robert J. Samuelson, | Title: 300 Hear Curry, Rebut His Opponents' Charge | 2/2/1966 | See Source »

...Pathet Lao boycotted the elec tions. Lacking the substantial flow of men and arms that North Viet Nam has had to divert to the Viet Cong next door, isolated by its refusal to take part in the government, driven back by gov ernment armies it once could lick, the Pathet Lao now controls far less land and 600,000 fewer Laotians than it did in 1962. Last week came yet another setback. The Defense Ministry reported that the Royal Laotian army had killed 80 Communist troops in a battle north of the Plain of Jars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Progress Amid the Potholes | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...Upheld a lower federal court order requiring New York to hold a special legislative election on Nov. 2. The elec tion will be held under "Plan A," the first of four reapportionment plans passed last December by a lame-duck Republican legislature. The State Su preme court voided all four, noting specifically that Plan A violated a state constitutional provision against a lower house of more than 150 members. A three-judge federal court overturned that ruling on the grounds that some reapportionment action must be taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The States: The Reapportionment Thicket | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...elected, Defferre would not go back on recognition, however, "because it is done." ∙FRENCH FOREIGN AID. Defferre wants it largely limited to France's former colonies, not scattered in ambitious prestige projects elsewhere. The money saved, he says, should be poured into badly needed housing, schools and elec tric power at home. ∙MANNER. Defferre would try to in stitute a genuine "dialogue" in place of the "monologue" that is De Gaulle's method of conducting foreign policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Preview of a Candidate | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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