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...Boston's Mayor-elect Kevin H. White will open eleven "neighborhood city halls" during the first months of his administration, Samuel P. Huntington, Frank G. Thompson Professor of Government said yesterday...
...Excitement. After a cordial election-night meeting with Taft, in which the loser proclaimed Cleveland "the least bigoted city in America" and Mrs. Taft gave Shirley Stokes a bouquet of long-stemmed roses, the mayor-elect named a new police chief, Inspector Michael ("Sledgehammer Mike") Blackwell; a safety director, Joseph McManamon; and a police prosecutor, James Carnes. All three are white. One of the first orders to the police department was to discard the riot helmets that had symbolized hostility to the ghetto dwellers...
...Bland" is the word usually used to describe Boston's Mayor-elect. He looks like most any other well-to-do State Street lawyer. The people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room don't turn their heads when he walks in. (It must be admitted that the people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room turn their heads for very few people.) He hardly attracted any attention last summer when he would hop into the Clarendon Street Brigham's for coffee before spending the morning at his Back Bay headquarters. And his voice lacked the resonance or depth that one expects...
John V. Lindsay, mayor-elect of New York City, Saturday appointed John Kenneth Galbraith, Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics to a task force which will study New York's antipoverty program...
...York City's Mayor-elect John Lindsay, 44, was announcing his appointment of a 49-year-old Democrat, Robert Lowery, to become the city's first Negro fire commissioner at $30,000 a year, the board of elections was offered a tentative tally on what it had cost the Lindsay people to be able to hand out such jobs-roughly $2,539,977 in campaign expenses, v. $2,451,919 in contributions. That left Lindsay's organization with more than $88,000 in bills still to pay. Just the day before, the mayor-elect had announced that...