Word: mayor
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...machine pros to deliver him the nomination. For one thing, the bosses today are fewer and less potent than of yore. The Democratic machinery in key states is either barnacled or defunct. Perhaps the only major old-line boss on whom Johnson can rely is Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, who predictably issued an effusive-and rather offensive-defense of the President by declaring: "Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party. One betrayed him, o'ne denied him and one doubted...
...city of anguished minorities. They range from the black ghetto of Hunters Point, scarred by riot in 1966, to the hippie enclave of Haight-Ashbury, from the convoluted alleys of Chinatown to the psychedelic strip-and-clip joints of North Beach, encompassing en route labor unions, symphony lovers and Mayor Joseph L. (for Lawrence) Alioto, 52, the millionaire son of an immigrant Sicilian fisherman.* Last week, a scant 2½ months after assuming office, Joe Alioto was well on the way to opening the Golden Gate for an array of hyperkinetic urban programs...
Presiding in the temporary absence of Mayor Walter J. Sullivan, Vellucci introduced a resolution ordering that the names of Lyndon B. Johnson, Robert F. Kennedy '48, Eugene J. McCarthy and Richard M. Nixon be placed on the April 30th primary ballot...
...Patriots, who have used the Stadium for charity functions four or five times in the last eight years, are not the first to play there, Whitlock said. The Stadium has been used for the Mayor's Charity Field Day for about 20 years, and for the Boston Latin-Boston English high school Thanksgiving game for a century...
...just to stay in the race with Nixon. Last week 33 top Republicans gathered in his Fifth Avenue duplex to advise him on strategy. The council included Maryland's Governor Spiro Agnew, Rhode Island's Governor John Chafee, New York's Mayor John Lindsay and, improbably enough, Barry Goldwater's 1964 running mate, former Representative William E. Miller. All but four of the 33 counseled Rocky to declare his candidacy and begin an all-out campaign in Oregon, where he won four years...