Word: mayor
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Running Los Angeles is like driving through that bewildering conurbation without a road map. The municipal charter diffuses power among the mayor, the city council and sundry city commissions, an arrangement that confuses all and pleases none-least of all the flamboyant, aggressive mayor. Sam Yorty. He complains that he has insufficient power to manage his urban empire; His critics, who are growing in number, reply that Sam has misused the very real power he has-and they are banding together to block his reelection next spring...
Criticism last week focused on a parks and recreation commission scandal. Three weeks ago, Yorty was stung by the conviction of two of his harbor commissioners for bribery, while two others await trial. And the criticism goes beyond his commissioners to the mayor himself. Negroes and white liberals claim that Yorty failed to move adequately to solve ghetto problems after the 1965 Watts riots...
...Angeles Times and other critics have assailed the mayor's frequent and protracted absences from the city-trips that have apparently helped boost trade but have kept him away too long from the critical problems in his own backyard. Yorty's most embarrassing gaffe, faithfully recorded on nationwide TV, was his gratuitous recital of possible evidence against Sirhan Sirhan. accused assassin of Robert Kennedy...
From a Negro Angle. The Johnson publications are straightforwardly of, by and for Negroes. News of the world is almost exclusively colored black. The July issue covered the funeral of Bobby Kennedy by running photos of the prominent Negroes who attended: Cleveland Mayor Carl B. Stokes, Rafer Johnson, Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., among others. The accompanying story was a perceptive account of Bobby's growth as a civil rights leader. In a previous issue, U.S. Senators got their pictures in the magazine only because they happen to frequent the Senate restaurant presided over by a Negro maitre...
Died. Giovanni Guareschi, 60, Italy's most popular political humorist, whose tales of Don Camillo, a village priest forever at swordspoint with his Red mayor, gave readers throughout the world a taste of Communism, Italian style; of a heart attack; in Cervia, Italy. With gentle wit and nimble satire, in five novels, Guareschi illuminated a curiously Italian phenomenon-the Catholic who prays in church but pays his dues to the Party-all to the delight of readers in 16 languages...