Word: mayor
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Compromise Judgment. The prosecutor did not have everything his way. Both defendants were represented by Soviet attorneys, who seemed not at all embarrassed at having to defend Americans. Wortham's counsel produced character affidavits from everyone from the mayor of North Little Rock to Congressman Wilbur Mills, told the court that "Wortham is not a person of such social danger as the prosecutor represented," asked for a token sentence of three months...
...waterfront itself is cut off by a rim of superdrives. Planners and architects have long dreamed of extending the island with marinas, heliports and apartment houses on stilts, but all plans so far have foundered in oceans of red tape, difficulties of finance, and massive indifference, from the mayor's office on down...
...development, to be called Waterside, has for five years been trying to make headway, has encountered every imaginable obstacle in the process. "This has been dead a hundred times," says Architect Davis. What made the difference was backing from the top; both Housing and Development Administrator Jason Nathan and Mayor John Lindsay decided that it was time to get Waterside under...
...chief tain in six towns in Pampanga and Tarlac provinces and also one of the Huks' most feared "enforcers." The government credited Oscar with at least 25 assassinations and abductions in recent months; Oscar himself openly bragged that he had led the ambush that killed the Huk-fighting mayor of Candaba last July...
...young art historian rose to become curator of the Cloisters, the Met's medieval annex and Rorimer's former bailiwick. But before Hoving had the opportunity to effect great changes, he was tapped by New York's newly elected Mayor Lindsay, who appointed him Commissioner of Parks. Now, only one month after he was named New York's cultural czar and put in charge of all the city's recreational and cultural affairs, Hoving has been awarded the nation's top museum post (salary: about...