Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles metropolitan area, the TV screen is an electronic Valhalla in which Ben Cartwright grapples with the Smothers brothers, Walt Disney with Perry Mason. For millions of viewers, the keenest new prime-time contender is a show-biz nonentity. Nevertheless, as star of the Sam Yorty Show, the mayor of Los Angeles, at 5 ft. 9 in., is a jolly big giant...
...champion thanked his father and proceeded to send his best to "all my friends in Houston, my new home -- the Soul Brothers, Skip and Lee, and the Wild Man.' He also wished Dick Gregory luck in his campaign for mayor of Chicago...
...umpteenth time, a bill granting home rule to the District of Columbia failed to reach a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. President Johnson has now decided to try a new approach. He proposes to reshuffle the present organization of the District into a proto-mayor-council government, using his authority under the Reorganization...
Imagination & Execution. Democratic Mayor James H. J. Tate, 57, a courtly Irishman with the instincts of a machine gunner, won in 1963 on the strength of Negro support. His obstinate opposition to neighborhood control of poverty funds turned both Washington and the Negro community against him. It also brought out the fighting instincts of City Controller Alexander Hemphill, 45, who will oppose Tate in the primary. Says N.A.A.C.P. Leader Cecil B. Moore, himself running for mayor as an independent: "Tate will be retired to the position he's best qualified for: cesspool attendant...
Actually, his lot was not terribly tormented. Lifelong friends looked after him, and local merchants accepted paintings in exchange for food. Recalls Andreas Hansen, then (as now) mayor of tiny Neukirchen and the ranking local Nazi: "Every week my wife and I visited the Noldes and we chatted. This was my inspection. I knew that he painted, but I kept my eyes closed...