Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John V. Lindsay-tacking the support of either major political party-won his bid for re-election as Mayor of New York yesterday. Running on the Liberal and Independent tickets, he defeated Democrat Mario Procaccino and Republican-Conservative John Marchi...
...Carl B. Stokes-the first black mayor of a major American city-won a second term by a tiny margin in Cleveland yesterday, but a black candidate for mayor of Detroit trailed as late returns came...
...this exhibition at the Fog, the first major presentation of his photography, some of Shahn's pictures of unemployed workers in the Midwest describe more than just the individual's painful condition. A mother clasps her arms around her child and its doll, locking her dirty fingers together. The open neck of her frayed dress uncovers the bones of her chest. She speaks with a half smile, while her child's porcelain cheeks and fixed, black eyes make him more doll-like than...
...place the Mayor in a strange position in national Republican politics. It is questionable whether party regulars on a national level would give the Mayor many brownie points for a victory built around Democratic support and a campaign that turned opposition to President Nixon's Vietnam policy into a major issue. Both Nixon and Governor Rockefeller tacitly endorsed Marchi in the election...
Vietnamization is Nixon's answer to the major problem his Administration now faces: how to convince a war-weary public that it is disengaging and yet convince Hanoi that...