Word: firstness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After losing the mayoral election to Kevin White in 1967, Mrs. Hicks took her first step toward a comeback in September by winning the right to compete for one of nine seats on the Boston city council next month...
Thus it would be no surprise if Cleveland elected its first Republican mayor since 1941. The G.O.P. has fielded a strong candidate in Ralph J. Perk, 55, auditor of Cuyahoga County and, like Pittsburgh's Tabor, a man of Czech descent. That helps in Cleveland, where identification with the old countries of Central and Eastern Europe is still close...
Perk stresses strict law enforcement and attacks what he claims are the declining levels of most city services. When re-elected as auditor, he became the first Republican in 25 years to carry the city. And as the G.O.P. grows stronger, black registration has dropped by near ly 10,000 this year...
...Haynsworth has kept to himself since his return from Washington. He spent most of last week in his office, where his staff protected him from visitors as he tried to catch up on his work and read the hundreds of letters he has received since President Nixon first submitted his nomination. He returns home each day to lunch with his wife, who calls herself his "home secretary," and to tend his camellias. Haynsworth has let his private-pilot's license lapse for want of time to pursue that hobby. His hunting days are over because of legal hazards...
...first it seemed little more than a routine civil suit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Overnight, however, the case burgeoned into a Washington scandal involving the office of House Speaker John Mc-Cormack. The first to be tarnished was Dr. Martin Sweig, 46, McCormack's $36,000-a-year aide for the past 24 years, who was suspended by the Speaker last week pending a complete inquiry...