Word: mayor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-year career as an elected official, Jim Garrison, 45, the larger-than-life (6 ft. 6 in.) district attorney of New Orleans, has tilted at windmills and gin mills, chastened Bourbon Street's once-famed B-girls, scourged the judiciary and battled with the mayor. More recently, he added the Warren Commission report to his mandate. Predictably, Garrison's investigation of "several plots" to kill President Kennedy has yielded the most rococo tale yet to emerge from that tragic day in Dallas...
Opposition candidates have been quick to capitalize on the crisis. "In the past," says Marseille's popular Socialist mayor, Gaston Defferre, "people voted for De Gaulle because he represented security. This is no longer true. Gaullism has failed the country socially, financially and economically." Asks Liberal Catholic Leader Lecanuet, a resolute pro-American: "Why doesn't France progress? We cannot have a force de frappe, a policy of prestige and national ambition, and at the same time build 600,000 housing units each year...
...chamber, of course, has no police power, but it prodded property owners to tidy up unsightly lots, encouraged Boys' Clubs members to move in on cluttered areas with flour sacks for trash, and ran a regular school program on beautification with films and 15-minute lectures. San Antonio Mayor Walter W. McAllister called his city's recognition "very gratifying but no real surprise." Indeed not. In the 19 years that San Antonio has been entering the contest, the city has won 18 awards for cleanliness, including a previous grand prize...
Friends of Mrs. Hicks who think she will run for mayor suggest that her operations on March 16 be watched closely. March 17 is St. Patrick's Day and that means another parade...
...other cities and towns in the spring, and provide additional financial aid for the construction of new imbalance-alleviating schools. But before the School Committee accepted the plan at its Monday meeting, Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, School Committee member, defender of the neighborhood school and possible candidate for mayor, got up and read a 17-page statement denouncing, the committee's plan...