Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...winner greeted his supporters with a characteristic mixture of serious talk and cracks about everything from his dog Freckles to his old antagonist, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty. Among Kennedy's last words from the rostrum: "I think we can end the divisions within the United States, the violence...
...once, from Washington, Pasadena, Beirut, the Jordanian village of Taiyiba and the loose tongue of Mayor Yorty, the life and bad times of the accused assassin,* Sol Sirhan, came into view. The middle-class Christian Arab family had lived in Jerusalem while Palestine was under British mandate, and the father, Bishara Salameh Sirhan, now 52, was a waterworks employee. The first Arab-Israeli war cost the elder Sirhan his job. Family life was contentious, but young Sirhan Sirhan did well at the Lutheran Evangelical School. (The family was Greek Orthodox, but also associated with other religious groups...
Just next door to Harvard--along Putnam Ave. down to the Charles--is the home territory of Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, member of one of the City's powerful political families. At best the Sullivans have, over the years, maintained an uneasy relationship with the University whose Houses now stand where their families grew up in the early part of the century. Sullivan, who has said little about the firing of DeGuglielmo, has made clear his preference for a native-born City Manager...
...commencement speaker, Walter Washington, mayor of Washington, D.C., said that universities can help solve our urban problems by learning how to "translate scholarly knowledge into practical action." Frequently departing from his prepared text, Washington (whose daughter Bennetta Jules-Rosette is in the senior class) noted that city administrations and colleges must work together to get anything done...
...pressure for pure research and for a thoroughly academic faculty was largely Harvard's. Says Stephen Thernstrom, the sole Brandeis member, "There was pressure from Harvard for 'first-class' people, not, say, consultants to the mayor. MIT is more promiscuous. MIT would have liked more autonomy; Harvard, as usual, was much fussier about appointments...