Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seven weeks racial tensions had mounted in Memphis, as the city's garbage strike escalated into a showdown between Mayor Henry Loeb and more than 200,000 Negroes seeking economic parity with whites. Last week black blues erupted into violence when militants got the opportunity they had been seeking. It was given to them by Dr. Martin Luther King...
Though relatively mild, the rampage panicked authorities. "We have a war!" cried Fire and Police Director Frank Holloman. Mayor Loeb slapped down a curfew, shuttered liquor stores, bars and entertainment places, and stopped the buses. Governor Buford Ellington rushed in 250 state troopers and 4,000 Tennessee National Guardsmen...
...phone-in," said he would try to get buses closer to the curb at pickup. Whether talking of hippies on the Haight ("This is not going to be any police state") or to Department Store Magnate Cyril Magnin (whom Alioto made city protocol chief), the balding, somber-suited mayor is the master of civic ceremony. Last week he redeemed a painful campaign promise to reduce city property taxes 20% by proposing a commuter tax-the first on the West Coast* which, if enacted, will net $14 million a year from San Francisco's 122,000 outside workers. They earn...
...second section of the paper-containing editorials, features and local news stories in the downtown edition-gets even more attention from the Orange County staff. In the first issue last week, an editorial about Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty's budget was replaced by a we're-glad-to-be-here editorial in the Orange County edition. Two pages of less important local news stories were added, along with two more pages of Orange County classified advertising. The sports section carried stories on a scandal involving athlete-recruiting in Orange County high schools and Amigos' (of speculation...
Died Edwin O'Connor, 49, author of 1956's bestselling The Last Hurrah, a fictionalized account of the life of Boston's Mayor James Michael Curley; of a heart attack; in Boston. "A pale carbon copy," hooted Curley when the book came out. Carbon maybe, but pale never, as critics cheered ( nor's fascinating account of the last campaign of the boss of a big-city machine. The book sold over 125,000 copies the first year, went on to become a hit movie, and made O'Connor a fortune He wrote several other books...