Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worried and I still think he's the next Mayor of Boston." says one clearheaded, knowledgable Boston politician, "but Kevin White's election isn't the sure thing we thought it was going to be." This somewhat pessimistic statement is representative of the general feeling across the river as the Boston Mayoralty campaign sputters into its last weeks...
Daniel J. Hayes Jr., the Mayor of Cambridge, is up for re-election to the City Council next month. Facing a tough fight, the good Mayor three weeks ago launched a verbal fusillade at the nearest vulnerable and harmless target, the city's hippie population. It may prove successful politics, but now he is threatening to turn his useless diatribe against long hair into a more perilous experiment in illegal harassment...
...recent days, the Mayor has plugged for a series of midnight raids and wholesale arrests. He has on occasion called in television cameras and even free-lance photographers to document the "filthy situation" that he has found hippies living in. City health and fire inspectors have suddenly become meticulous about ticketing violators--in apartment houses where hippies live. As the Mayor himself admits, "I've warned the landlords that if they do rent to hippies, they'll be in for all sorts of problems...
...crackdown on drug use by hippies--if it is necessary, and if that is what the Mayor is really concerned about--would be better served by a lot less bluster and a good more sober investigation of the extent of the problem...
...this way, Nehemiah has come a long way from Frankfurt, his birth place. But he has not left his past behind him yet. Nehemiah is secretary of Ayeleth Hashachar--a combination of mayor, personnel supervisor, presiding elder and youth coun selor. Essentially, he is responsible for the immediate well-being of 1000 men, women, and children. The job requires all the managerial talent of a Ford presidency and sets a pace that would leave any tycoon panting. He has more than handled the challenge. This is his second term as secretary, and he's been asked to stay six months...