Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three other incumbents--Mayor Danie J. Hayes Jr., and councillors Cornelia B. Wheeler and Thomas Coates--are still locked in a battle for two council seats. Coates slipped slightly yesterday. He will have to pick up a sizeable number of votes in the next round of redistribution if he is to stay in the race...
...think with White as Mayor, the great creative resources around Boston will get tapped and Boston could again become an exciting city. But if Mrs. Hicks gets elected, Boston will continue to decay until it becomes as stolid and as provincial as one of those Irish county seats that most of our people walked out of 150 years ago." The mustachioed poll worker's analysis of Boston's fate under Mrs. Hicks seems essentially accurate; but the idea that the Honorable Kevin H. White, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could turn Boston into the swinging Athens...
...Bland" is the word usually used to describe Boston's Mayor-elect. He looks like most any other well-to-do State Street lawyer. The people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room don't turn their heads when he walks in. (It must be admitted that the people in the Ritz-Carlton Dining Room turn their heads for very few people.) He hardly attracted any attention last summer when he would hop into the Clarendon Street Brigham's for coffee before spending the morning at his Back Bay headquarters. And his voice lacked the resonance or depth that one expects...
...City Hall in Scollay Square won't be ready for the January, 1968, inaugural.) Aside from the ramifications of her stand on de facto segregation, the opening of old Boston wounds and divisions--just now healing--would have been one of the saddest aspects of Mrs. Hicks' election as Mayor. Under Mayors John B. Hynes (1950-1959) and John F. Collins (1960-1968) the split between the city government and Boston's Establishment healed. A Harvard diploma ceased to be a liability for a man dealing with the city government. With Mrs. Hicks in office a Harvard, or for that...
Kevin White's election as mayor does not guarantee four years of booming growth and econ Now is the timing growth and revolutionary change, but it does mean that Boston will be receptive to new ideas and new programs