Word: mayor
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...activity keeps his pennant flapping smartly. The trip to Los Angeles again showed him to be the consummate campaigner. Considering his official mission-to boost New York City Opera Company's opening-he traveled heavy. In addition to Mrs. Lindsay, he took his press secretary, a deputy mayor, a speechwriter and his TV consultant. Not that he appeared to need help. From the ladies in the audience Lindsay elicited the usual sighs of "divine," "beautiful." And in an even dozen appearances before students, lawyers, reporters, business leaders and other Angelenos, his speeches and repartee, laced with tart humor, were...
...publisher of the New Left Ramparts magazine, by 15,069 votes to 8,881. Keating, who billed himself as the "real" peace candidate, stood fast for Proposition P. Archibald, a wartime PT-boat skipper who is a West Coast spokesman for the National Education Association and an able former mayor of San Mateo, voiced mild qualms over U.S. tactics in Viet Nam but supported the U.S. commitment...
Among its opponents: Attorney-Businessman Joseph Alioto, 51, a self-made millionaire, who handily won the city's mayoral race with 109,982 votes over Attorney-Restaurant Owner Harold Dobbs (94,089). A moderate Democrat and political newcomer who had the support of both Big Labor and retiring Mayor Jack Shelley, Alioto promised that his first action would be to reduce the tax burden on homeowners...
Philadelphia: The Crusher A lackluster machine politician before the 1967 campaign began, Philadelphia's Mayor James Tate had both luck and organized labor on his side when election day rolled around. By chance, he had been in Tel Aviv during the six-day Arab-Israeli war last June; later he appeared in Rome when Philadelphia's Archbishop John Joseph Krol was installed as cardinal, thereby gaining overnight a statesmanlike image. At home, Big Jim threw his wholehearted support behind Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo's tough antiriot policies, thus winning the support of Philadelphia's working-class...
Organized labor provided the crusher. Armed with some $200,000 from the A.F.L.-C.l.O., the mayor's machine turned out the workingman's vote in automated order. Workers thus repaid Tate's past deference to Philadelphia's big maritime unions (he recently rejected a bill to expand docking facilities to Camden, N.J., and Chester, Pa.) and his approval of a $40 million wage-and-retirement bill. Tate...