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Washington, D.C., was the first major American city with a Negro majority in its population. Last week it be came the first U.S. city to have a Negro chief executive.* Named by President Johnson as the first commissioner, or mayor, in the capital's reorganized city government was Walter Washington, 52, chairman of New York City's housing authority and one of the nation's top experts in that field...
...Flint, Mich., has a Negro mayor, but his duties are largely ceremonial...
Cleveland, whose population is only 35% Negro, in 1965 came within a hairsbreadth of becoming the first major U.S. city to elect a Negro mayor. It may still be the first. Currently, the leading contender in the Oct. 3 Democratic primary is Carl Stokes, a Negro state legislator who, running as an independent two years ago, fell short of winning the election from Incumbent Ralph Locher by only 2,143 votes...
...Mayor Teddy Kollek's municipal government has lifted the nightly curfew, and cool jazz echoes once more through cobbled alleyways from the Cave du Roi and Les Caves discotheques...
Died. Robert King High, 43, mayor of Miami since 1957 and unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Florida's governorship last year; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables. A scrappy Tennessee-born lawyer, High asserted strong leadership in what is a largely ceremonial post (an administrator runs day-to-day operations), easing racial tensions by organizing a civic panel to hear Negro job grievances and working effectively to resettle over 100,000 exiles from Castro's Cuba. Last year he defeated incumbent Governor Hayden Burns in a gloves-off primary fight, but did not have the muscle to match...