Word: mayor
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WHAT'S HAPPENING TO AMERICA? (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). NBC News Correspondent Edwin Newman, New York City Mayor John Lindsay and Frank Mankiewicz, press secretary to the late Senator Kennedy, mull over what everyone wants to know. Second in a four-part series...
WHEN Hubert Humphrey took to his bed in Washington with a 101° fever, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty was unsympathetic enough to suggest that the Vice President had contracted a diplomatic malady. The reason for his sudden indisposition, suggested Yorty, was the threat-which indeed materialized-of massive anti-war demonstrations in Los Angeles, where he had been scheduled to address a Democratic Party rally...
Oddly enough, some of the more proper Bostonians have bent over backward to try to help the flower children. Warned in advance of the invasion, Mayor Kevin H. White formed a committee of businessmen, clerics, resident hips, police and psychologists to resolve the hippies' hang...
Reacting to mounting civic fear, Mayor White slapped a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. antiloitering curfew on the Common. To protest the curfew, some 300 hippies held a candlelight parade through the Common, encouraging bystanders to join. Unfortunately, some of the joiners were teen-age thugs, and in a prolonged melee that flashed off and on for three days, 34 were arrested. Police said that only six of them were authentic hippies...
...often bums who came to me looking for a job") into the old burlesque houses. His ringing voice assailed vice at hearings held by the New York City Commissioner of Licenses as well as from the pulpit of his red brick church. He helped prod New York's Mayor Fiorello La Guardia into closing down the strip joints and driving their operators out of town. For his campaign against "coddlers" of crime, he won plaudits from FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover. His activities brought fame to his church (which sometimes attracted as many as 25,000 worshipers...