Word: gibsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swift price rise lined the pockets of many speculators; one corn-pit operative made $500,000 in paper profits. Many farmers face severe financial reverses. Sadly surveying the infestation of the 600 acres of corn that he and his son are raising in Indiana's Gibson County, Melvin Pflug, 52, estimates that only half of it will be worth harvesting. "We'll be lucky if we have enough corn to pay our fertilizer bill," he said...
There was lingering bitterness too. Before Addonizio's statement, militant anti-blacks who had placed their hopes on him attacked newsmen covering his headquarters. No one was seriously hurt, but cameras were smashed and TV cables ripped out. For some white voters, Gibson's triumph was a nightmare. Said one white man: "Harry Belafonte came in last week, and then there are those young Jewish lawyers from Paterson coming up here. It's all outsiders and Communists." Outside a polling place, Mrs. Josephine Heinze demanded: "Are we prejudiced because we voted for Addonizio?" Her daughter replied...
...racial fears could not balance Addonizio's debits in the polling booth. Chief among them appeared to be the extortion charges for which he is now on trial. Three city councilmen indicted with him were also defeated at the polls last week. Gibson, who takes office July 1 and has not yet made his key appointments, will have to work with a council composed of six whites and three blacks, five elected from opposition seats...
Mono Lisa. It is a certainty of American demography that just as Gibson is not the first black mayor of a large city, he will not be the last. In Cleveland, Carl Stokes became mayor with the help of 19% of the white vote; in Gary, Ind., Richard Hatcher won with 12% of the white voters on his side. Like Gibson, they are the products of poverty, determination and faith in the political process. In the future, there will be more Ken Gibsons, if present trends continue: the rise of black population in central cities and the white flight...
...leading Newark politician may have come closer to the truth than he realized in a half-jocular summary of the meaning of Gibson's election. "Gibson is like the Mona Lisa," he said. "You don't really know what he can do or what he will do. Probably after the first week, LeRoi Jones [the militant black writer who supported Gibson] will want to assassinate him. After the second week, Gibson will lose his moderate support. Eventually, he will just be another mayor in trouble." And, he might have added, black officeholders will some day provide the final...