Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost a week now since the President's Commission on Civil Disorders made public its report on the riots of last summer. And still there is no comment from the White House. "It's a very large report," as the Commission's vice-chairman. Mayor Lindsay, noted, "and needs lots of review. The President had little time to read it before it was published." But apparently he had read enough. The commission asserted that "our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal." In what may be the Administration's opening salvo at the report...
...four, among them Cambridge Mayor Walter J. Sullivan and the group's senior member James Fitzgerald, listened without response to the arguments of the other three committee members led by Francis H. Duehay '55, assistant dean of the Ed School. The three were supported by the applause of the crowd and a 500-signature petition...
...state, Conservative Rafferty would be easier to beat in a general election than Liberal Kuchel. No Democrat of national stature has yet entered the primary campaign for the nomination, but several possibilities are sitting in the wings closely watching Rafferty's progress. They include Los Angeles' maverick Mayor Samuel Yorty, State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, and perhaps even former Governor Edmund Brown. Not one of them can match Rafferty's turgid prose style-but that, in a long, hard-fought campaign, may prove more of a virtue than a handicap...
...American determination to keep them free. Thus last week, when 10,000 leftist students marched through the streets carrying Communist banners, chanting "Ho, Ho, Ho Chi Minh" and crying their hatred of the "Amis," the city's reaction was immediate and visceral. Spurred by angry newspaper editorials, Mayor Klaus Schutz called West Berliners out for a giant pro-American demonstration that would serve as "an answer to the radicals and rowdies in our city...
...taking his fight to the streets, the mayor may have stirred up nearly as much trouble as he cured. Both demonstrations inflamed the already volatile suspicions between the city's populace and its minority student rebels-who, annoying though they may be, are not a real threat...