Word: mayor
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City Turned Off. While the finger pointing and maneuvering for advantage dominated the headlines and gave a foretaste of urban violence as a 1968 political issue, officials at all tiers of Government were obviously learning some lessons from the summer chaos. On the front line, Milwaukee Mayor Henry Maier showed that advance planning and determined action could contain violence, if not prevent it. Last year Maier quietly gave his police force intensive training in riot control. He also prepared an emergency plan that had the virtue of simplicity: in the event of trouble, he would simply turn the city...
...lead the attack, President Johnson created a high-powered eleven-member presidential commission, with Illinois' Democratic Governor Otto Kerner as chairman and New York's Republican Mayor John Lindsay as vice chairman. The whole membership was equally carefully balanced, economically, geographically and politically...
...separatists. "General de Gaulle's tour of Quebec," fumed the Montreal Gazette, "has been like that of a man in a world of fantasy. He has not only dimmed his own reputation; he has raised new doubts throughout the world about his aims and methods." Montreal's Mayor Jean Drapeau offered his own polite rebuke. "We are attached to this immense country," he said. "Our future lies with this country...
Ever since it was announced that the elegant old dowager was retiring, her friends have wondered how she would spend her sunset years. Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner considered asking her to join his bunny empire, and New York's Mayor Lindsay definitely hoped to have her for his Board of Education. S.S. Queen Mary, 33, ended up going to the city of Long Beach, Calif., which will transform her into a hotel and maritime museum. Long Beach's bid of $3.4 million was about $1,000,000 better than any other, said Cunard Lines Chairman Sir Basil Smallpiece...
This month, Israeli authorities started bulldozing abandoned Arab shacks clustered around the walls of the Old City; they plan to replace the hovels with a park. In addition, the Arab portion of Jerusalem is rapidly being incorporated into the Israeli New City, under the direction of Mayor Teddy Kollek, 56. Unified water, telephone and bus services have been restored in Jerusalem, and the majority of Arab civil servants from the Old City have been given jobs in Kollek's municipal government. Thanks partly to the incorporation of suburban areas to the north and south, the city's population...