Word: mayor
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...council elected Sullivan Mayor. (In Cambridge the Mayor has little real power, save as chairman of the School Committee.) Sullivan, who received votes from two of DeGuglielmo's supporters, stayed out of the subsequent fight over the manager...
...there is even an outside chance that City politics might grow a little quieter in the near future. The wranglings of the past two years have taken a toll; more than one long-term friendship has been strained--or snapped. In his inaugural address, Mayor Sullivan said he hoped that his administration would be one of "harmony." Though only a word, it is a word heard more frequently around City Hall these days...
...Although it will involve a definite conflict of interest," Mayor Sam Yorty once joshed, "the city of Los Angeles has purchased the Los Angeles Times." The gibe against his old foe, the most powerful daily in the West (circ. 861,350), has earned Yorty many a laugh. No longer. By last week, the six-year-old Yorty administration was up to its funny bone in its first major scandal, a real-life conflict-of-interest case exposed, naturally, by the L.A. Times...
Despite the indictments, Yorty, 58, staunchly defended his commissioners; claimed the Times is "out to get me." Why? According to the maverick Democratic mayor, the newspaper launched a vendetta because Yorty is an unannounced Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate this year, opposing Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel. And Kuchel, avers Yorty, is "the Times's boy." Ignoring his charge, the Times has contented itself by noting editorially that "city hall will be as clean as Mayor Yorty wants...
...managed to escape all the unseemly excitement of Election Day by the simple expedient of nobody running for anything." The town treasurer, a lady who keeps the ledgers on her dining-room table, confessed that she "just never got around to putting her name on the ballot." The mayor wearily explained that he was not running for re-election because "we have all the aggravations of the big cities, maybe more. We have dogs, cats, neighbors fighting...