Word: mayor
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...Philadelphia, Specter shifted political allegiance from liberal Democrat to liberal Republican, won handily in the 1965 race for district attorney to become the city's first major G.O.P. victor in a dozen years. Last week Specter took on a new challenge: he accepted the Republican nomination for mayor in this fall's municipal election...
...Natchez moderates ventured forth after the bombing to support the hitherto-lonely peacekeeping efforts of Mayor John Nosser, 67, a Lebanese-born immigrant who has the distinction of having had his house bombed by white racists and his small chain of dry-goods stores boycotted by Negroes. At week's end, Nosser, Police Chief J. T. Robinson and Sheriff Odell Anders appeared at a Negro protest rally and took part in a tableau the likes of which Mississippi had not seen before. Linking arms with Negro demonstrators, they sang We Shall Overcome...
Unity for Division. The second scheme, announced by Mayor John Lindsay last week, is really a doubleheader: it starts with 5½ miles of existing Long Island Rail Road tracks in Brooklyn, calls for covering them over first with the proposed Cross Brooklyn Expressway, then placing on top of that a "spine city" of schools and colleges, housing, parks and community facilities. The planners envision shuttle trains and moving sidewalks to carry people to and from the length of the spine, see the linear plan as capable of indefinite extension...
...Expressways tend to divide communities when they cut through them," said Mayor Lindsay, speaking of the Brooklyn project. "But here, a linear city would be a unifying factor instead." The same could as easily be said of the plan to cover over the Park Avenue tracks. Both designs suggest that, in the future, the right side of the tracks to live on will be in one direction...
...again, they speak of the time when the trouble will end and they can go back to the elysium of such hamlets as Gia Hoi or Hoai Chau. So narrow and parochial is their vision that most do not know the name of their province chief or the mayor of the adjoining city. At their hesitant best, the peasants can identify only Ho Chi Minn and the late Ngo Dinh Diem. Few know why the French came and where or why they have gone. Some do not even know that Viet Nam has been divided into a North and South...